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Marseille : la bonne blague du moratoire sur la vidéosurveillance - 2 avril 2021
Hier 1er avril, le collectif Technopolice de Marseille dénonçait lors d’une action de sensibilisation devant la mairie, la promesse mensongère de la majorité municipale sur le moratoire de la vidéosurveillance.
C’est une histoire tristement classique : des promesses électorales, des élections, puis un volte-face éhonté. (...)
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Les PDG de Facebook, Google et Twitter en accusation devant le Congrès américain pour leur rôle dans la désinformation - 26 mars 2021
Quatrième comparution en un an pour Mark Zuckerberg, troisième pour Sundar Pichai et Jack Dorsey : les PDG ont répondu, jeudi, aux questions des élus américains.
Quatrième comparution en un an pour Mark Zuckerberg, troisième pour Sundar Pichai et Jack Dorsey : les PDG de Facebook, Google et Twitter ont répondu, jeudi 25 (...)
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Paleis der Natie | Een kleine oorlog in de covidmarge - 16 mars 2021
Bij de Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit (GBA) woedt een opmerkelijk conflict dat de Franstalige media bezighoudt. De inzet lijkt de machtspositie van Frank Robben, de gedelegeerd bestuurder van Smals, de ICT-arm van de overheid. Het parlement kijkt toe.
Een sleutelscène in het docudrama ‘Brexit : An Uncivil War’ is (...)
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FBI Seized Congressional Cellphone Records Related to Capitol Attack - 25 février 2021
The inclusion of congressional phone data in the FBI investigation raises thorny constitutional questions.
Within hours of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, the FBI began securing thousands of phone and electronic records connected to people at the scene of the rioting — including some related to members (...)
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Facebook Said It Would Stop Pushing Users to Join Partisan Political Groups. It Didn’t. - 29 janvier 2021
According to Citizen Browser data, the platform especially peppered Trump voters with political grouprecommendations
In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, Facebook said it was taking “emergency” measures to prevent people from using the platform to spread misinformation or coordinate violence. Among (...)
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How the Mercers Funded Election Unrest - 27 janvier 2021
The billionaire Republican megadonors have funded numerous organizations now peddling baseless claims about the election.
The storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6 has brought to the fore a host of activists on the extreme right whose violent rhetoric helped to create the conditions for an assault that left (...)
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Data Exploitation and Political Campaigning : A Company Guide Resource - 22 janvier 2021
PI presents here 5 profiles of companies involved in political campaigning in order to provide a snapshot of how the digital political campaign sector works and further highlight the opacity and concerns for privacy.
Key findings
PI analysed publicly available material in order to profile 5 companies (...)
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Facebook claims it does not conduct business in Australia in Cambridge Analytica appeal - 19 janvier 2021
Social media company aims to avoid liability over Cambridge Analytica scandal by arguing it does not collect or hold data in Australia
Facebook is claiming it does not conduct business in Australia and does not collect and hold data in the country in its effort to avoid liability over the Cambridge Analytica (...)
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How Facebook Profits from the Insurrection - 19 janvier 2021
Facebook suspended President Trump and announced other actions after the U.S. Capitol riot. But it continued to push ads for military gear next to insurrection posts.
Facebook has been serving up ads for weapons accessories and body armor alongside election misinformation and insurrection talk in “patriot” and (...)
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Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users’ Location Data, Has Been Archived - 12 janvier 2021
In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately (...)
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Can Donald Trump Survive Without Twitter ? - 11 janvier 2021
We’re about to see if he can truly be de-platformed.
On Friday, Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump’s account. According to the company, one of the tweets that sealed the deal was “President Trump’s statement that he will not be attending the inauguration” and its implication that the results of the 2020 (...)
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The Instagram Insurrection - 11 janvier 2021
The first inkling I had that something was very wrong on Wednesday was when my wife said, “Oh shit, is this real ?” as we were en route to Trader Joe’s after spending a few hours on the cold, sun-drenched beaches of Long Island for a winter walk on our last day of a vacation. A friend had texted about the Capitol. (...)
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The facial-recognition app Clearview sees a spike in use after Capitol attack. - 10 janvier 2021
After the Capitol riot, Clearview AI, a facial-recognition app used by law enforcement, has seen a spike in use, said the company’s chief executive, Hoan Ton-That.
“There was a 26 percent increase of searches over our usual weekday search volume,” Mr. Ton-That said.
There are ample online photos and videos of (...)
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Suspension des comptes de Donald Trump : les plates-formes numériques entre opportunisme et aveu d’échec - 10 janvier 2021
Twitter, Facebook, Google et d’autres acteurs ont pris des mesures pour limiter la portée de la parole du président des Etats-Unis. Tardives, ces réactions ne doivent pas faire oublier leur part de responsabilité dans l’émergence d’un terreau propice aux théories complotistes, ni leur difficulté à mettre en place des (...)
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The Instagrammed Insurrection and the Great Deplatforming - Will Oremus - 10 janvier 2021
Booting Trump won’t solve social media’s problems. But it’s not a bad place to start.
The president of the United States is no longer allowed to post on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch, or Shopify. Twitter said Friday night that its ban was permanent — and it was swiftly followed by suspensions of the (...)
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’Four years of propaganda’ : Trump social media bans come too late, experts say - 9 janvier 2021
Platforms have long let his dangerous posts stand – and researchers say the Capitol attack is ‘exactly what we expected’
In the 24 hours since the US Capitol in Washington was seized by a Trump-supporting mob disputing the results of the 2020 election, American social media companies have barred the president from (...)
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In Georgia, Facebook’s Changes Brought Back a Partisan News Feed - 5 janvier 2021
Ahead of crucial senate runoffs, Facebook reversed its political ad ban, and the impact was visible on users’ feeds
As Georgians head to the polls to vote on their two U.S. Senators—and effectively, partisan control of Congress—on Tuesday, voters face an online landscape far different from what they saw in the weeks (...)
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Georgia runoff ads made Facebook News Feeds more partisan and less informative - 5 janvier 2021
The Markup collected data from 58 Georgia users’ News Feeds
When Facebook lifted its ban on political ads in Georgia, local News Feeds became dramatically more partisan and less informative, according to research published on Tuesday by The Markup.
Facebook banned US political advertising in the wake of the (...)
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Who (really) targets you ? - 1er janvier 2021
Facebook in Polish election campaigns
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Beginning in 2018, on the heels of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, conversations about the scale and impact of political microtargeting (‘PMT’) began to significantly fuel the newscycle and shape the political agenda. The EU began its war on disinformation and (...)
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Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth - 28 novembre 2020
Employees and executives are battling over how to reduce misinformation and hate speech without hurting the company’s bottom line.
SAN FRANCISCO — In the tense days after the presidential election, a team of Facebook employees presented the chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, with an alarming finding : (...)
