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Facebook suspends environmental groups despite vow to fight misinformation - 23 septembre 2020
Facebook blames mistake in system for restrictions on groups including Greenpeace USA
Facebook has suspended the accounts of several environmental organizations less than a week after launching an initiative it said would counter a tide of misinformation over climate science on the platform.
Groups such as (...)
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Facebook Sued Over Kenosha Killings - 23 septembre 2020
“If Facebook won’t change their M.O., then a judge needs to tell them to enforce their own standards.”
When 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse killed two Black Lives Matter protesters (and wounded a third) in late August in Kenosha, Wisconsin, he instantly became a hero among white nationalist circles, in which the Second (...)
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Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) - YouTube Finds Machines Really Suck At Moderating Content - 23 septembre 2020
Alphabet Inc’s video-sharing platform YouTube is shifting back to human moderators for monitoring online content after months of increased reliance on artificial intelligence, according to the Financial Times.
What Happened : It may seem that using technological innovations could improve the quality of content (...)
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Après avoir favorisé les algorithmes pour modérer les contenus, YouTube fait marche arrière - 23 septembre 2020
Avec le télétravail et la pandémie, YouTube avait, comme d’autres plates-formes, donné plus de place aux machines pour détecter automatiquement les contenus contraires à son règlement. Mais celles-ci se sont montrées trop zélées.
Onze millions de vidéos supprimées entre avril et juin, soit deux fois plus qu’en temps normal : (...)
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Ex-content moderator sues YouTube, claims job led to PTSD symptoms and depression - 23 septembre 2020
The worker watched videos that included beheadings, shootings and child abuse, according to the lawsuit.
A former content moderator is suing Google-owned YouTube after she allegedly developed depression and symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder from repeatedly watching videos of beheadings, (...)
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Facebook accusé par une ancienne employée d’avoir ignoré des tentatives de manipulations politiques dans plusieurs pays - 17 septembre 2020
Le mémo d’une ingénieure de Facebook, publié sur le réseau interne des équipes du réseau social à la fin d’août au moment de son licenciement, a été révélé dans les médias américains lundi. Il décrit des opérations de manipulations politiques dans de nombreux pays restées sans réponse adéquate.
Des manipulations politiques qui sont (...)
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Haine en ligne : ils veulent lutter autrement que les GAFAM - 16 septembre 2020
Les géants du net ont multiplié les initiatives pour lutter contre haine et désinformation cet été. Comptes bloqués, vidéos censurées, labels signalant les "médias affiliés à un État". Mais pour les promoteurs de l’internet libre, le problème est bien plus profond. Tour d’horizon de leurs solutions.
YouTube, Twitter, (...)
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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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Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive - 11 septembre 2020
The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users, then largely shelved the research
A Facebook Inc. FB 0.94% team had a blunt message for senior executives. The company’s algorithms weren’t bringing people together. They were driving people apart.
“Our algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction (...)
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From viral conspiracies to exam fiascos, algorithms come with serious side effects - 6 septembre 2020
A mesmerising, unaccountable kind of algorithm – machine learning – is blinding governments to the technology’s often disastrous flaws
Will Thursday 13 August 2020 be remembered as a pivotal moment in democracy’s relationship with digital technology ? Because of the coronavirus outbreak, A-level and GCSE examinations (...)
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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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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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Amazon’s top UK reviewers appear to profit from fake 5-star posts - 5 septembre 2020
Investigation finds suspicious behavior by 9 of top 10 UK contributors on feedback.
Amazon’s top UK reviewers appear to profit from fake 5-star posts
Investigation finds suspicious behavior by 9 of top 10 UK contributors on feedback.
Amazon is investigating the most prolific reviewers on its UK website after a (...)
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Amazon takes down a five-star fraud in the UK - 4 septembre 2020
The company deleted 20,000 suspicious reviews following Financial Times investigation
Amazon’s top reviewers in the UK appear to have engaged in fraud, leaving thousands of five-star ratings in exchange for money or free products. The company took down 20,000 product reviews following an investigation by the (...)
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Facebook to Censor Anything it Deems Necessary to Avoid ’Adverse Legal or Regulatory Impacts’ - 1er septembre 2020
The update to the terms of services looks to be a preventative measure to avoid some legal battles in the future, but Facebook still has a lot of adversaries in Washington DC and is constantly under attack by politicians from the left, right, and center about its policies and how they are enforced.
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En Inde, Facebook accusé d’avoir soutenu le parti au pouvoir - 1er septembre 2020
Une haute responsable du réseau social est accusée d’être intervenue pour favoriser le Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dans les pratiques de modération de Facebook.
La responsable des politiques publiques de Facebook en Inde est accusée d’avoir utilisé son poste pour favoriser le Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, nationalistes (...)
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Zuckerberg blames contractors for failing to remove Kenosha militia’s ’call to arms’ - 30 août 2020
Facebook CEO points to ‘operational mistake’ by teams meant to bar organizations deemed dangerous
Mark Zuckerberg blamed an “operational mistake” by contractors for Facebook’s failure to remove the “call to arms” of a Kenosha, Wisconsin, militia before the shooting on Tuesday night that left two people dead and another (...)
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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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YouTube a doublé la suppression de vidéos durant la pandémie - 27 août 2020
La plate-forme américaine d’hébergement de vidéos en ligne s’est appuyée sur ses systèmes automatisés pour modérer le site et a préféré supprimer trop de vidéos que pas assez.
Jamais YouTube n’avait supprimé autant de vidéos en un trimestre : 11,4 millions de vidéos ont été modérées par la plate-forme entre avril et juin 2020, a (...)
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Facebook Ban on Far-Left Pages Is Extension of Trump Propaganda - 21 août 2020
Facebook announced a sweep to ban some user groups — and it equated violent white supremacist militias with antiracist organizing.
On Wednesday, Facebook announced an expansion of its “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy,” removing or restricting hundreds of pages associated with groups that it claims (...)
