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Instagram censure #lesbians mais pas #lesbian : bienvenue en Absurdistan - 2 février 2021
Le réseau social masque actuellement le hashtag #lesbians. Ce fait révèle à quel point l’algorithme de modération d’Instagram fonctionne de manière arbitraire, se basant sur des règles de modération qui s’expliquent théoriquement, tout en restant sont discriminantes sur le fond.
« Ce hashtag est masqué », peut-on lire sur la (...)
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Facebook ‘still making money from anti-vax sites’ - 2 février 2021
Social network allowing dangerous Covid theories to be shared, says Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Facebook is allowing users to profit from the spread of potentially dangerous false theories and misinformation about the pandemic and vaccines, including deploying money-raising tools on pages with content (...)
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Comment fait-on pour que les hommes cessent de violer ? - 27 janvier 2021
C’est le dernier shitstorm en date sur Twitter. Les comptes (initialement militants et féministes) qui ont publié cette phrase se sont trouvés bloqués ou suspendus.
En suspens la phrase : "Comment fait-on pour que les hommes cessent de violer ?"
Pourtant cette phrase n’est pas agressive, pourtant elle n’est pas (...)
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Twitter a beau admettre une erreur, il suspend encore des comptes féministes - 27 janvier 2021
De nouveaux comptes de militantes féministes ont été suspendus sur Twitter. Le réseau social avait reconnu lundi une « erreur » dans son algorithme de modération.
Certains comptes Twitter sont encore suspendus, ce 27 janvier, après avoir posé la question « Comment fait-on pour que les hommes arrêtent de violer ». Numerama (...)
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Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children - 25 janvier 2021
A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.
In the wake of a terrorist attack in London earlier this month, a U.S. congressman wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of (...)
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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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En France, anticiper le Digital Services Act, ignorer le droit européen existant - 18 janvier 2021
Le gouvernement a déposé l’amendement visant à « prétranscrire » dans notre droit les grandes lignes du Digital Services Act. Il reprend sans surprise la version révélée dans les colonnes de Next INpact. La saisine pour avis du Conseil d’État, envisagée un temps, n’a finalement pas été mise en œuvre.
Toujours dans le cadre du (...)
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How AWS and Other Cloud Providers Became the Internet’s Most Powerful Moderators - Owen Williams - 17 janvier 2021
In another era, Parler would have owned its servers—and remained online
When Amazon Web Services decided to stop hosting the alt-right social network Parler last week following the insurrection at the Capitol, it looked like the site was doomed to go offline.
Migrating an app successfully between cloud providers, (...)
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Control Facebook and mend broken societies... If only it were that simple - 17 janvier 2021
Social media is not to blame for all our ills. We must delve deeper into our culture
London is full of Pops. From the area around City Hall to parts of the Olympic Park, there are dozens of “privately owned public spaces”. Places that appear to be public but are owned by a private corporations and have their own (...)
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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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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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EFF’s Response to Social Media Companies’ Decisions to Block President Trump’s Accounts - 10 janvier 2021
Like most people in the United States and around the world, EFF is shocked and disgusted by Wednesday’s violent attack on the U.S. Capitol. We support all those who are working to defend the Constitution and the rule of law, and we are grateful for the service of policymakers, staffers, and other workers who (...)
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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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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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Facebook Employees Leaving As Hate Speech Festers - 30 décembre 2020
A departing Facebook employee said the social network’s failure to act on hate speech “makes it embarrassing to work here.”
On Wednesday, a Facebook data scientist departed the social networking company after a two-year stint, leaving a farewell note for their colleagues to ponder. As part of a team focused on (...)
