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Facebook expose ses utilisateurs à des opinions de plus en plus extrêmes et Mark Zuckerberg refuse d’y remédier - 28 mai 2020
Facebook sait depuis longtemps que sa plateforme encourage les contenus extrémistes et polarisants, et l’entreprise ne montre aucune envie d’apporter des changements pour résoudre ce problème. Son PDG Mark Zuckerberg lui-même ne semble pas s’y intéresser, comme le rapporte le Wall Street Journal. Le Wall Street Journal a (...)
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Researchers : Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots - 22 mai 2020
Nearly half of the Twitter accounts spreading messages on the social media platform about the coronavirus pandemic are likely bots, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said on Wednesday.
Researchers culled through more than 200 million tweets since January discussing the virus and found that about 45% were (...)
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Current and ex-employees allege Google drastically rolled back diversity and inclusion programs - 15 mai 2020
One well-liked diversity training program at Google called Sojourn was cut entirely, according to seven former and current employees.
Google has significantly rolled back its diversity and inclusion initiatives in an apparent effort to avoid being perceived as anti-conservative, according to eight current and (...)
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Why Banjo Is the Most Important Social Media Company You’ve Never Heard Of - 6 mai 2020
After Inc. published this story in 2015, new outside reporting emerged in 2020 indicating that, as a juvenile, Damien Patton was affiliated with a hate group and pleaded guilty to a drive-by shooting at a synagogue. In response, Patton has said, "I did terrible things and said despicable and hateful things, (...)
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Tech company’s ties to white supremacism trigger debate on surveillance algorithms - 6 mai 2020
Revelations call for transparency in how artificial intelligence is used by law enforcement
The sudden suspension of a controversial multi-million dollar surveillance system used by several government agencies in Utah has opened up a debate about the lack of oversight for artificial intelligence systems in law (...)
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How Tech Algorithms Become Infected With the Biases of Their Creators - 1er mai 2020
In wake of Banjo CEO revelations, bias in A.I. comes under new scrutiny
Bias in artificial intelligence is everywhere. At one point, when you Googled “doctor,” the algorithm that powers Google’s namesake product returned 50 images of white men. But when biased algorithms are used by governments to dispatch police or (...)
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Banjo CEO Damien Patton Was Once Tied to KKK and Neo-Nazis | OneZero - 30 avril 2020
Documents reveal Damien Patton, CEO of SoftBank-backed Banjo, admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his youth
In magazine profiles and on conference stages, Damien Patton, the 47-year-old co-founder and CEO of the surveillance startup Banjo, often recounts a colorful autobiography. He describes how he ran away (...)
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This Small Company Is Turning Utah Into a Surveillance Panopticon - 30 avril 2020
Banjo is applying artificial intelligence to government-owned surveillance and traffic cameras across the entire state of Utah to tell police about "anomalies."
The state of Utah has given an artificial intelligence company real-time access to state traffic cameras, CCTV and “public safety” cameras, 911 emergency (...)
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Bordering under the corona virus pandemic (Georgie Wemyss and Nira Yuval-Davis) – Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment - 21 avril 2020
In our recent book Bordering (Yuval-Davis, Wemyss & Cassidy, 2019), we discuss the paradoxical phenomenon that, under neoliberal globalisation, borders did not disappear but rather proliferated off-and in-shore, from consulates across the globe to everyday spaces like railways and places of work. We described (...)
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The Making of a YouTube Radical - The New York Times - 21 avril 2020
Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube.
Soon, he was pulled into a far-right universe, watching thousands of videos filled with conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism.
“I was brainwashed.”
Martinsburg, W.Va. — Caleb Cain pulled a Glock pistol from his waistband, took out the (...)
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What Facebook Did to American Democracy - The Atlantic - 19 avril 2020
And why it was so hard to see it coming
In the media world, as in so many other realms, there is a sharp discontinuity in the timeline : before the 2016 election, and after.
Things we thought we understood—narratives, data, software, news events—have had to be reinterpreted in light of Donald Trump’s surprising win (...)
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La collecte de données, nouvel outil de la manipulation politique - Vidéo - Play RTS - 14 avril 2020
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Les liaisons dangereuses de Clearview avec l’extrême droite | korii. - 8 avril 2020
Le patron du monstre de reconnaissance faciale, proche de l’alt-right, s’est associé à de nombreux extrémistes.
Avec trois milliards de photos aspirées sur les réseaux sociaux, la base de données de Clearview est sept fois plus importante que celle du FBI. Son application mobile permet d’associer un visage à un nom en (...)
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The Far-Right Helped Create The World’s Most Powerful Facial Recognition Technology | HuffPost - 8 avril 2020
Advanced facial recognition technology poses a mortal threat to privacy. It could grant the government, corporations and even average citizens the ability to capture a photo of anybody and, with a few keystrokes, uncover all kinds of personal details. So when The New York Times published an exposé about a shadowy (...)
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The Hate Store : Amazon’s Self-Publishing Arm Is a Haven for White Supremacists — ProPublica - 7 avril 2020
The company gives extremists and neo-Nazis banned from other platforms unprecedented access to a mainstream audience — and even promotes their books.
“Give me, a white man, a reason to live,” a user posted to the anonymous message board 4chan in the summer of 2017. “Should I get a hobby. What interests can I pursue to (...)
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RSF dévoile la liste 20/2020 des Prédateurs numériques de la liberté de la presse | RSF - 11 mars 2020
A l’occasion de la Journée mondiale de lutte contre la cybercensure, le 12 mars, Reporters sans frontières (RSF) dévoile une liste de 20 Prédateurs numériques de la liberté de la presse en 2020. En traquant les journalistes, ces entreprises, organismes et administrations mettent en péril notre capacité à nous informer. (...)
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Vidéos complotistes : « YouTube a la capacité de modérer son contenu lorsqu’il en a la volonté politique » - 9 mars 2020
Des chercheurs ont déterminé que l’un des algorithmes suggérait deux fois moins de vidéos complotistes qu’auparavant. Mais ces efforts sont partiels.
YouTube lutte-t-il de manière efficace contre les vidéos promouvant des théories du complot ? Pour la plate-forme de vidéo en ligne, propriété de Google, la question est (...)
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YouTube accused of being ’organ of radicalisation’ | Technology | The Guardian - 8 mars 2020
Algorithms push viewers to extremes, senior MP says at launch of report on far right
Social media companies have been heavily criticised at the launch of a major report on the far right, with YouTube being labelled an “organ of radicalisation”.
The State of Hate 2020 report, by Hope Not Hate, also found the (...)
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Un homme d’affaires pro-Trump investit dans Twitter contre Jack Dorsey | korii. - 7 mars 2020
Paul Singer est l’un des principaux soutiens financiers du Parti républicain. Or, les conservateurs américains sont vent debout contre les « biais politiques » présumés de Twitter.
La politique de Twitter, qu’elle concerne le harcèlement en ligne ou l’extrémisme politique et religieux, est très critiquée, et à juste titre. (...)
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Algorithmic content moderation : Technical and political challenges in the automation of platform governance - Robert Gorwa, Reuben Binns, Christian Katzenbach, 2020 - 6 mars 2020
As government pressure on major technology companies builds, both firms and legislators are searching for technical solutions to difficult platform governance puzzles such as hate speech and misinformation. Automated hash-matching and predictive machine learning tools – what we define here as algorithmic moderation (...)
