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Platform Capitalism, Empire and Authoritarianism : Is There a Way Out ? - 21 mars 2021
The world will face more widespread and intensified surveillance, but this time it could be framed as something for our own good, for the good of humanity.
President Trump has left the building. In his final days, in one of the most symbolic moments of his short period in the White House, after his supporters had (...)
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Facebook and Twitter Face International Scrutiny After Trump Ban - 15 janvier 2021
Human rights groups and activists have spent years urging the companies to do more to remove content that encouraged violence.
LONDON — In Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Facebook kept up posts that it had been warned contributed to violence. In India, activists have urged the company to combat posts by political figures (...)
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Covid-19 Ushered in a New Era of Government Surveillance - 30 décembre 2020
Government-mandated drone surveillance and location tracking apps could be here to stay
In early December, after finding 16 people had illegally crossed the border from Myanmar to Thailand and evaded the mandatory quarantine period, the Thai government said it would start patrolling the border with new (...)
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La « cour suprême » de Facebook a (enfin) sélectionné de premiers cas à trancher - 5 décembre 2020
Cette structure évaluera, sous quatre-vingt-dix jours, si le réseau social a eu raison de dépublier ces contenus litigieux.
« Enfin. » Helle Thorning-Schmidt ne cache pas sa satisfaction de présenter, mardi 1er décembre, les six premiers cas que la « cour suprême » de Facebook va trancher. La dirigeante de l’ONG Save the (...)
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Facebook Has Been a Disaster for the World - 14 octobre 2020
How much longer are we going to allow its platform to foment hatred and undermine democracy ?
For years, Myanmar’s military used Facebook to incite hatred and genocidal violence against the country’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority group, leading to mass death and displacement. It took until 2018 for Facebook to (...)
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How Facebook Can Prevent Its Next Deadly “Operational Mistake” - 5 septembre 2020
If Zuckerberg cares at all about the platform’s impact, he should stop outsourcing content moderation now
On the morning of August 25, a self-proclaimed militia group on Facebook called Kenosha Guard put out a public call for people to “take up arms” and defend the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, from “evil thugs” — (...)
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Military-backed company in Myanmar seeks control of the country’s internet - 24 juillet 2020
In authoritarian countries, armed forces wield huge power over digital spaces
Myanmar’s military sought influence, power, and money via a Facebook disinformation campaign to benefit a telecoms company backed by the country’s armed forces.
A recently exposed disinformation campaign on Facebook has highlighted the (...)
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Human rights activists want to use AI to help prove war crimes in court - 9 juillet 2020
It would take years for humans to scour the tens of thousands of hours of footage that document violations in Yemen. With machine learning, it takes just days.
In 2015, alarmed by an escalating civil war in Yemen, Saudi Arabia led an air campaign against the country to defeat what it deemed a threatening rise of (...)
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Facebook is out of control. If it were a country it would be North Korea - 6 juillet 2020
If the combined might of brands like Unilever and Coca-Cola don’t scare Mark Zuckerberg, who can hold the social media platform to account ?
There is no power on this earth that is capable of holding Facebook to account. No legislature, no law enforcement agency, no regulator. Congress has failed. The EU has (...)
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« Facebook a-t-il basculé du “mauvais côté de l’histoire” ? » - 8 juin 2020
En refusant de modérer certains propos de Donald Trump, le réseau social ne combat pas les appels à la violence avec le même zèle que certaines « fake news », estime dans sa chronique Stéphane Lauer, éditorialiste au « Monde ».
Chronique. Facebook a-t-il basculé du « mauvais côté de l’histoire » ? La question en forme (...)
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COVID-19 Digital Rights Tracker - 3 mai 2020
This live tracker documents new measures introduced in response to COVID-19 that pose a risk to digital rights around the world.
In response to the outbreak of COVID-19 :
Contact Tracing Apps are being used in 29 countries
Alternative digital tracking measures are active in 30 countries
Physical surveillance (...)
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Facebook a démantelé une opération de désinformation menée par un opérateur télécom birman - 15 février 2020
Mytel est majoritairement détenu par des opérateurs eux-mêmes contrôlés par l’armée birmane et l’armée vietnamienne.
Une dizaine de pages Facebook, liées à l’opérateur téléphonique birman Mytel, ont été désactivées par Facebook mercredi 12 février, dans le cadre de son programme de lutte contre la désinformation. Ces comptes (...)
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How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades - 11 février 2020
For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries.
For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.
The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build (...)
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Le « Human screenome » souhaite capturer l’intégralité de nos vies sur smartphone | korii. - 5 février 2020
Le but : aider la science à comprendre leur influence sur nos activités, nos centres d’intérêt et nos engagements sociaux.
Le concept de temps d’écran pourrait bientôt disparaître pour être remplacé celui de « screenome », c’est à dire une analyse fine de notre vie numérique qui ne se limite pas aux heures passées sur nos (...)
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Facebook Apologizes for Vulgar Translation of Chinese Leader’s Name - The New York Times - 24 janvier 2020
Facebook apologized on Saturday after its platform translated Xi Jinping, the name of the Chinese leader, from Burmese to a vulgar word in English.
The mistranslation caught the company’s attention when Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto civilian leader of Myanmar, wrote on her official Facebook page about Mr. Xi’s (...)
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World Report 2020 : Shutting Down the Internet to Shut Up Critics | Human Rights Watch - 17 janvier 2020
From Caracas to Khartoum, protesters are leveraging the internet to organize online and stand up for their rights offline. In response, in the past year governments in Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Myanmar and Zimbabwe shut down the internet in all or (...)
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Too big to fail ? Tech’s decade of scale and impunity - 26 décembre 2019
Big tech behaves as though power absolves them of responsibility. Have we learned nothing since the financial crash ?
Towards the end of the last decade, two American social networks – Facebook and MySpace – were locked in a battle to conquer the rest of the world.
The two companies took “radically different” (...)
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The Invention of “Ethical AI” - 22 décembre 2019
How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation
The irony of the ethical scandal enveloping Joichi Ito, the former director of the MIT Media Lab, is that he used to lead academic initiatives on ethics. After the revelation of his financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier charged with sex trafficking (...)
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Dear Mark Zuckerberg : Facebook Is an Engine of Anti-Muslim Hate the World Over. Don’t You Care ? - 9 décembre 2019
Dear Mark Zuckerberg,
What happened to you ?
Back in December 2015, you spoke out loudly and proudly against anti-Muslim hatred. “I want to add my voice in support of Muslims in our community and around the world,” you wrote in a post on Facebook, two days after then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (...)
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Bienvenue dans le « World Wide Fake » - 16 janvier 2019
Aujourd’hui, plus de la moitié du trafic internet mondial est généré par des bots, c’est-Ã -dire des faux utilisateurs, qui manipulent les audiences et orientent les débats. Et c’est notre capacité collective à faire société qui est en jeu.
Le Web existe officiellement depuis le mois de mars 1989. Il s’est construit sur (...)
