More Than Hashtags

On Episode 21, We talk about how social media's role during times of tragedy, specifically the tragedy in Las Vegas. Social media plays an important role to help document, communicate. Social Media also plays a valuable roll of helping up cope and understand tragedy on such a grand scale by connecting us to human stories and also allowing us to raise money for those in need.During the second half of the show we dig into some social media news and updates.Show links:https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/02/search-and-social-media-was-filled-with-clickbait-and-propaganda-in-the-wake-of-vegas-shooting/Facebook’s Russia-Linked Ads https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/technology/facebook-russia-ads-.htmlFB ads targeted Michigan, Wisconsin: http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/russian-facebook-ads-michigan-wisconsin/index.htmlPinterest officially recognizes hashtags: http://www.socialmediatoday.com/social-networks/what-pinterests-hashtag-announcement-really-tells-usFB adding 1000 jobs for ad reviewers: http://mashable.com