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Amazon’s book recommendation algorithms promote anti-vaccine and QAnon conspiracy theories and far-right, white nationalist content - 16 mai 2021
A new report says the retail giant’s book recommendation algorithms direct people toward conspiracy theories and far-right, white nationalist content
A recently released report highlights how Amazon’s book recommendation algorithms can lead people to literature about extremism, white nationalism, and conspiracy (...)
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Facebook leak underscores strategy to operate in repressive regimes - 25 mars 2021
Exclusive : users are allowed to praise mass killers and ‘violent non-state actors’ in certain situations
Facebook users are permitted to praise mass murderers and “violent non-state actors” in certain situations, according to internal guidelines that underline how the tech corporation is striving to operate in (...)
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Désinformation, menaces contre des journalistes : Reporters sans frontières porte plainte contre Facebook - 24 mars 2021
La plainte, déposée en France, estime que les manquements du réseau social en matière de modération sont assimilables à des « pratiques commerciales trompeuses ».
Reporters sans frontières (RSF) a déposé une plainte contre Facebook pour « pratiques commerciales trompeuses », a annoncé l’organisation de défense de la liberté (...)
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Exit la démocratie, bienvenue dans l’autoritarisme : contrôle de l’État, maintien de l’ordre et surveillance dans les universités grecques - 23 mars 2021
Academia a pris l’habitude d’assurer une veille sur les libertés académiques dans le monde, cet ailleurs qui ne ressemble guère à notre expérience française. Du moins, qui ne rassemblait guère.
L’article d’Eleni Dimou qui explicite les enjeux sur la loi sur les universités votée en Grèce le 11 février 2021 résonne bien (...)
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Platform Capitalism, Empire and Authoritarianism : Is There a Way Out ? - 21 mars 2021
The world will face more widespread and intensified surveillance, but this time it could be framed as something for our own good, for the good of humanity.
President Trump has left the building. In his final days, in one of the most symbolic moments of his short period in the White House, after his supporters had (...)
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Exiting democracy, entering authoritarianism : state control, policing and surveillance in Greek universities - 15 mars 2021
A bill regarding the “safety” and policing of Greek universities, among other issues, was voted on the 11th of February 2021, by 166 MPs from New Democracy, the right-wing ruling party, and Greek Solution, a far-right party, despite the unanimous opposition of left-wing parties (132 MPs), the Greek academic and (...)
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Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data - 1er mars 2021
The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make the 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists.
When Twitter banned Donald Trump and a slew of other far-right users in January, many of them became digital refugees, migrating to sites like Parler and (...)
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Le réseau social Gab, prisé des ultraconservateurs américains, a été piraté et ses données volées - 1er mars 2021
Les 70 gigaoctets de données dérobées, par un pirate dont l’identité reste inconnue, sont désormais mises à disposition sur demande par le groupe d’activistes Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets).
Le réseau social Gab – qui tente de s’imposer comme le principal lieu de rassemblement des internautes d’ultradroite ou (...)
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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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Aux Etats-Unis, la réforme de la législation d’Internet est lancée - 15 février 2021
Les démocrates ont déposé au Sénat le Safe Tech Act, premier projet de loi de l’ère Biden sur la limitation du pouvoir des entreprises technologiques.
Comme ils l’avaient promis pendant la campagne électorale de 2020, les démocrates américains sont partis à l’attaque contre l’impunité dont jouissent les grandes (...)
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How far right uses video games and tech to lure and radicalise teenage recruits - 14 février 2021
After a 13-year-old was sentenced last week, a young victim of radicalisation talks about how white supremacists target children
John was 15 when a member of his Facebook group volunteered to become Britain’s “first white suicide bomber”. Another advocated attending Friday prayers at the local mosque and “slaying (...)
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Facebook bans misinformation about all vaccines after years of controversy - 9 février 2021
Company will remove posts with false claims and groups with repeated violations will be shut down
Facebook has banned misinformation about all vaccines following years of harmful, unfounded health claims proliferating on its platform.
As part of its policy on Covid-19-related misinformation, Facebook will now (...)
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How Your Phone Betrays Democracy - 7 février 2021
In footage from drones hovering above, the nighttime streets of Hong Kong look almost incandescent, a constellation of tens of thousands of cellphone flashlights, swaying in unison. Each twinkle is a marker of attendance and a plea for freedom. The demonstrators, some clad in masks to thwart the government’s (...)
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They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them. - 6 février 2021
Times Opinion was able to identify individuals from a trove of leaked smartphone location data.
In 2019, a source came to us with a digital file containing the precise locations of more than 12 million individual smartphones for several months in 2016 and 2017. The data is supposed to be anonymous, but it isn’t. (...)
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Pourquoi la modération de Twitter fonctionne si mal - 5 février 2021
actuelLes utilisateurs réguliers du réseau social constatent que la gestion de la suppression des tweets reste fréquemment hasardeuse.
Quinze ans après sa création, à San Francisco, Twitter reste une plate-forme qui ne gère pas correctement le contenu qui y est posté et peine à faire respecter les règles qu’il a (...)
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Le PDG de Parler largué par son entreprise - 4 février 2021
Parler est le fameux réseau social vers lequel tous les regards se sont tournés après les évènements du Capitole aux États-Unis.
Largement pointée du doigt pour avoir joué un rôle important, l’application a été supprimée des boutiques d’Apple et Google pour ne pas avoir su modérer plus efficacement les discours de haine et (...)
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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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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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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 (...)
