America

It's October so it's officially the start of spooky season. All of the folks on the podcast today are based in the US so it's been the countdown to Halloween for us since April. Gotta love that American capitalism. But scary definitely is the theme of this week's podcast as we'll be discussing the rise of anti masker groups on Facebook, the battle of misinformation and bears. Joining special guest host Fay Schofield on the podcast today we have not one. Not two. Not three. But FOUR guests. We have: Alex "Hocus Pocus" Hudson Angela "Vampire" Velarde Maggie "Monster Mash" McCarthy Abby "RIP" Reutzel  This lovely lot are part of the social media crew over at M+R so expect lots of social chatter from us. This week’s topics:     Stat of the week The number of people who have joined anti-mask Facebook groups has grown 1,800% to more than 43,000 users, since the beginning of August - NY Times Charity news of the week  Nonprofits joining in the #ProudBoys discussion: Far-right group becomes LGBT trend online - BBC News Tech news of the week Facebook will push more users to discover and join groups - CNBC Twitter's 'Birdwatch' is an experiment in fighting misinformation - Engadget  Hootsuite fired the whistleblower who blew the cover about ICE - Nandini Jammi/Twitter And finally…  Fat Bear Week  ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We’d love to hear your thoughts. Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at [email protected]  We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your pals about this podcast! Thanks to podcast.co for hosting our podcast.