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Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation - 14 septembre 2020
A 6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew leaders of countries around the world were using their site to manipulate voters — and failed to act.
Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections (...)
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Une entreprise américaine à l’origine de campagnes de désinformation en Amérique latine - 10 septembre 2020
CLS Strategies a dépensé plus de 3 millions d’euros en publicités ciblées sur Facebook et Instagram en Bolivie, au Venezuela et au Mexique, pour soutenir des candidats conservateurs.
Cinquante-cinq comptes et 42 pages Facebook, ainsi que 36 comptes Instragram, jugés coupables d’avoir cherché à monter des campagnes (...)
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Why Facebook’s political-ad ban is taking on the wrong problem - 10 septembre 2020
A moratorium on new political ads just before election day tackles one kind of challenge caused by social media. It’s just not the one that matters.
When Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would stop accepting political advertising in the week before the US presidential election, he was responding to (...)
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If Then : How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future - 9 septembre 2020
The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge—decades before Facebook, Google, and Cambridge Analytica. Jill Lepore, best-selling author of These Truths, came across the company’s papers in MIT’s archives (...)
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The Anti-Democratic Origins of Voter Prediction - 9 septembre 2020
How the Simulmatics Corporation tried to engineer an election—and paved the way for the Cambridge Analytica scandal
I’m always a bit relieved when a tech company’s algorithm seems to fall short of mind reading. It’s somewhat reassuring when a so-called smart ad displays hideous shoes I would never buy just because I (...)
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The long, complicated history of “people analytics” - 9 septembre 2020
If you work for Bank of America, or the US Army, you might have used technology developed by Humanyze. The company grew out of research at MIT’s cross-disciplinary Media Lab and describes its products as “science-backed analytics to drive adaptability.”
If that sounds vague, it might be deliberate. Among the things (...)
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Facebook election plan patches some holes, creates others - 6 septembre 2020
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc’s FB.O final policy changes in the lead-up to U.S. elections in November are unlikely to stem a flood of disinformation around the vote, which could suppress turnout and sow confusion about results, election experts said on Friday.
Restrictions on paid messaging were a net (...)
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Facebook Didn’t Remove Kenosha Militia Event Page - 3 septembre 2020
Facebook said it removed a militia event associated with the shooting of three protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. It didn’t. Here’s what really happened, and why it could happen again.
Despite Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s previous statements that the company had removed a militia event where people discussed (...)
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Opinion | Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Is the Most Powerful Unelected Man in America - 3 septembre 2020
Facebook is too big for democracy.
On Thursday, Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, announced the company’s “New Steps to Protect the U.S. Elections.” They include blocking new political ads in the week leading up to Election Day and attaching labels to posts containing misinformation, specifically related (...)
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The Thin Blue Line Between Violent, Pro-Trump Militias and Police - 1er septembre 2020
Police in Kenosha told armed vigilantes, “We appreciate you guys. We really do.” Then one of them killed two protesters.
The videos that preceded Anthony Huber’s killing on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, are jarring. Among the most chilling is one from the parking lot of an auto repair shop. Several shots ring (...)
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Facebook Executive Supported India’s Modi, Disparaged Opposition in Internal Messages - 1er septembre 2020
Some employees said the sentiments and actions conflicted with the company’s longstanding neutrality pledge
A Facebook Inc. FB -0.16% executive at the center of a political storm in India made internal postings over several years detailing her support for the now ruling Hindu nationalist party and disparaging its (...)
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Facebook’s Kenosha Guard Militia Event Was Reported 455 Times. Moderators Said It Was Fine. - 29 août 2020
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the reason the militia page and an associated event remained online after a shooting that killed two people was due to “an operational mistake.”
In a companywide meeting on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that a militia page advocating for followers to bring weapons to an (...)
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Bernard E. Harcourt : « Comment subvertir les logiques numériques qui désormais nous gouvernent ? » - 28 août 2020
Philosophe et juriste, avocat de condamnés à mort en Alabama, Bernard Harcourt s’est très tôt intéressé aux effets de la mutation numérique sur la gouvernementalité et à l’avènement de ce qu’il appelle La Société de l’Exposition – titre de son important essai enfin traduit en français, parution qui nous offre l’occasion d’un (...)
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Dans la guerre économique sino-américaine, TikTok pris en étau - 28 août 2020
L’affrontement entre l’administration Trump et le groupe chinois ByteDance auquel appartient le réseau social TikTok prend désormais un tour judiciaire. Alors que la guerre économique entre la Chine et les États-Unis bat son plein, le président américain a publié un décret le 6 août interdisant le téléchargement de (...)
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Manipulations numériques en Afrique, par André-Michel Essoungou - 26 août 2020
Début juin, Facebook a fermé 446 pages, 96 groupes et plus de 200 comptes Instagram administrés par la société franco-tunisienne URéputation. Celle-ci aurait cherché à influencer, par la diffusion de fausses informations, des élections en Afrique francophone. Laboratoire mondial des manipulations numériques, le continent (...)
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A “Bug” In Instagram’s Hashtags Has Been Favoring Donald Trump - 25 août 2020
“A technical error caused a number of hashtags to not show related hashtags. We’ve disabled this feature while we investigate.”
For at least the last two months, a key Instagram feature, which algorithmically pushes users toward supposedly related content, has been treating hashtags associated with President Donald (...)
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Why Facebook Can’t Quash QAnon - 23 août 2020
QAnon has become impossible to ignore. The bizarre, sprawling, right-wing conspiracy theory, which holds that a pseudonymous Trump ally known as Q is involved in a secret battle against a powerful globalist “deep state” linked to pedophilia and Satan worship, has been gathering adherents for years. Supercharged by (...)
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Kamala Harris’s Big Tech Connections - 22 août 2020
Silicon Valley has enthusiastically backed Ms. Harris since she first ran for state attorney general in California a decade ago.
When Kamala Harris, then San Francisco’s district attorney, was running to become California’s attorney general in 2010, she did not hide her excitement about speaking at Google’s Silicon (...)
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The Wikipedia War Over Kamala Harris’s Race - 18 août 2020
An editing battle over Kamala Harris’s race is a sign of what’s to come.
At 4:14 p.m. Delaware time Tuesday, Joe Biden’s campaign sent out a mass text message announcing the presumptive Democratic nominee’s choice for vice president : Senator Kamala Harris of California.
Four minutes later, a user named Zvikorn (...)
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Trump Disputing Election A Worry For Facebook Employees - 16 août 2020
Facebook employees collected evidence showing the company is giving right-wing pages preferential treatment when it comes to misinformation. And they’re worried about how the company will handle the president’s falsehoods in an election year.
Facebook employees collected evidence showing the company is giving (...)
