#263: Facebook in Disarray Over Privacy Concerns; Vox Media’s Melissa Bell

Published: March 23, 2018, 5:14 a.m.

In the news this week, Facebook has taken one hit after another when the news broke that Trump consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had received Facebook profile data on 50 million users to help sway the election. Can the social giant turn the tide of bad news? Meanwhile Google made a splash by pledging $300 million for its new Google News Initiative to fight fake news, support subscriptions for publishers and more. As Facebook and Google lose share in online advertising, publishers are also looking elsewhere for social distribution, including Twitter and Pinterest. And Vox Media's Melissa Bell joins us to talk about the company's social video layoffs as the company pivots toward more podcasts and TV shows.