#241: Social Platforms Help Target Ads to Racist Groups; NYC Media Labs Justin Hendrix

Published: Sept. 22, 2017, 4:58 a.m.

b'In the news this week, journalists found that Facebook, Google and Twitter all allowed them to target ads toward racist groups like \\u201cJew haters\\u201d and \\u201cblack people ruin neighborhoods.\\u201d The social platforms quickly removed those terms. A new initiative called Report for America aims to place 1,000 public service journalists into newsrooms over the next five years. Can a Peace Corps idea help boost local journalism? And the creator of the Pepe the Frog cartoon is taking legal action against alt-right groups for selling merchandise with his image. Our Metric of the Week is ARPU, and we go one-on-one with Justin Hendrix, executive director of the NYC Media Lab, to discuss his upcoming Summit next week and a new center focused on virtual and augmented reality.'