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Surinformation, trop d’écrans... Attention, déraison ! - 12 janvier 2021
Comment sauver notre temps de cerveau disponible sur le marché très concurrentiel de l’attention ? Le sociologue Gérald Bronner publie "Apocalypse cognitve" (PUF, 2020). Il est notre invité aujourd’hui.
Gérald Bronner est sociologue, membre de l’Académie des technologies, et enseignant à l’université Paris-Diderot. (...)
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Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users’ Location Data, Has Been Archived - 12 janvier 2021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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Violences policières : quand l’IGPN est désavouée par la justice - 11 janvier 2021
Un brigadier-chef de la police nationale de Pau, qui avait dénoncé des violences présumées commises par un collègue lors d’une interpellation, a été poursuivi au pénal puis relaxé à deux reprises.
« Ma carrière dans la police nationale est brisée. Pour moi, c’est terminé. » A 50 ans, le brigadier-chef JMC (qui a souhaité (...)
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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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Election en Ouganda : Facebook ferme les comptes de responsables gouvernementaux - 11 janvier 2021
Facebook a fermé ces derniers jours les comptes de plusieurs responsables gouvernementaux ougandais accusés d’interférences dans le débat public à l’approche de l’élection présidentielle de jeudi, a indiqué lundi le géant américain dans un courriel à l’AFP.
Facebook a fermé ces derniers jours les comptes de plusieurs (...)
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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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How QAnon Conspiracy Theories Spread in My Hometown - 10 janvier 2021
During the pandemic, some of the people I grew up with got sucked into QAnon and the Q-adjacent “Save the Children” movement.
Earlier this summer, I noticed this alarming shift in my Facebook feed. Childhood friends and old high school acquaintances began plastering my timeline with posts referring to a satanic (...)
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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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Twitter and Facebook Lock Trump’s Accounts After Violence on Capitol Hill - 7 janvier 2021
The moves came after critics and even some allies of the social media companies said they had failed to prevent the misinformation that led to chaos on Wednesday.
Update : Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, said on Thursday that President Trump would be blocked from its platforms “at least” through the end (...)
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Claims Antifa Embedded in Capitol Riots Come From a Deeply Unreliable Facial Recognition Company - Dave Gershgorn - 7 janvier 2021
XRVision also has a track record of spreading conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden
Congressman Matt Gaetz, a Republican from Florida, took to the House floor on Wednesday night to spread an increasingly popular conspiracy theory that the pro-Trump mobs that overtook the Capitol building were in fact aligned (...)
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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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Another “Pre-Crime” AI System Claims It Can Predict Who Will Share Disinformation Before It’s Published - 4 janvier 2021
Another “Pre-Crime” AI System Claims It Can Predict Who Will Share Disinformation Before It’s Published from Activist Post
We previously have covered the many weighty claims made by the progenitors of A.I. algorithms who claim that their technology can stop crime before it happens. Similar predictive A.I. is (...)
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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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Google told its scientists to ’strike a positive tone’ in AI research - documents - 30 décembre 2020
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications and interviews with (...)
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Exploitation des données, manipulation de l’opinion, culte du secret… La trahison des GAFA - 21 décembre 2020
Il y a encore quelques années, Mark Zuckerberg était considéré comme un génie, Google comme l’une des entreprises les plus cool au monde… et puis la confiance s’est perdue. L’avidité des géants de la tech semble avoir eu raison des valeurs des pionniers du numérique : liberté, innovation et progrès.
Deux jours d’audience de (...)
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The Robot Made Me Do It : Human–Robot Interaction and Risk-Taking Behavior - 18 décembre 2020
Empirical evidence has shown that peer pressure can impact human risk-taking behavior. With robots becoming ever more present in a range of human settings, it is crucial to examine whether robots can have a similar impact. Using the balloon analogue risk task (BART), participants’ risk-taking behavior was measured (...)
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Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine - 17 décembre 2020
The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves.
The Doomsday Machine was never supposed to exist. It was meant to be a thought experiment that went like this : Imagine a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life. Now suppose that (...)
