#259: Bots, Conspiracies Sow Division After School Shooting; PBS NewsHour’s Hari Sreenivasan by MediaShift Podcast

In the news this week, Twitter bots and conspiracy theories abound after the school shooting in Florida, as one survivor is wrongly called out as a “crisis actor.” What can the social platforms do to stop misinformation? Vox Media says it will lay off 50 staffers, especially in social video, while The Atlantic plans to hire 100 people over the next year. Facebook advertising executive Rob Goldman is in hot water over his misleading tweets about Russian interference in the  U.S. election. Our Metric of the Week is Frequency, and Hari Sreenivasan, anchor of PBS NewsHour Weekend talks about the evolving role of the TV anchor and how he uses Facebook Live.