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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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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 (...)
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Tech platforms vowed to address racial equity : how have they fared ? - 28 décembre 2020
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google and Amazon issued statements in response to Black Lives Matter this year but did they follow through ?
Following the death of George Floyd and nationwide protests against police brutality and racial inequality, some of the largest technology corporations waded into the (...)
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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 (...)
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La « cour suprême » de Facebook a (enfin) sélectionné de premiers cas à trancher - 5 décembre 2020
Cette structure évaluera, sous quatre-vingt-dix jours, si le réseau social a eu raison de dépublier ces contenus litigieux.
« Enfin. » Helle Thorning-Schmidt ne cache pas sa satisfaction de présenter, mardi 1er décembre, les six premiers cas que la « cour suprême » de Facebook va trancher. La dirigeante de l’ONG Save the (...)
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Facebook condemned for hosting neo-Nazi network with UK links - 26 novembre 2020
Tech giant criticised for failing to act after being told two years ago about extremist activity on its platform
A white supremacist network with more than 80,000 followers and links to the UK far right, including a student charged with terrorist offences, is being hosted by Facebook and Instagram, putting the (...)
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« Nous construisons avec toutes ces lois sécuritaires les outils de notre asservissement de demain » - 25 novembre 2020
Dans un entretien au « Monde », l’avocat Patrice Spinosi dénonce une accumulation sans précédent de mesures sécuritaires et un déséquilibre institutionnel.
Avocat au Conseil d’Etat et à la Cour de cassation, Me Patrice Spinosi dénonce une accumulation sans précédent de mesures sécuritaires. Il y voit un point de bascule (...)
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QAnon and the Emergence of the Unreal - 2 novembre 2020
Ethan Zuckerman delves into how the conspiracist community surrounding QAnon represents a hazardous new form of participatory civics and digital storytelling.
The Grass Valley Charter School in northern California teaches 500 students from kindergarten to eighth grade using principles from Outward Bound and other (...)
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How Donald Trump Changed the Internet - 1er novembre 2020
How the president changed life online—for better and for worse
Being online has changed Donald Trump. He was the internet’s candidate in 2016—he appears in Urban Dictionary’s definition of meme god—and his campaign leveraged the power of Facebook advertising to beat Hillary Clinton. Since then, he’s become even more (...)
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Facebook Manipulated the News You See to Appease Republicans, Insiders Say - 25 octobre 2020
Sources tell us the platform tweaked its code to help right-wing publishers and throttle sites like Mother Jones.
Near the close of the first year of the Trump presidency, executives at Facebook were briefed on some major changes to its News Feed—the code that determines which of the zillions of posts on the (...)
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Facebook Ran Recruitment Ads for Militia Groups - 19 octobre 2020
For years, Facebook profited from militia group ads looking to attract new recruits. The messages reached tens of thousands of users.
Facebook has allowed dangerous militia groups to run recruiting ads that reached tens of thousands of users and is still enabling such groups to organize on the platform, according (...)
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Facebook Has Been a Disaster for the World - 14 octobre 2020
How much longer are we going to allow its platform to foment hatred and undermine democracy ?
For years, Myanmar’s military used Facebook to incite hatred and genocidal violence against the country’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority group, leading to mass death and displacement. It took until 2018 for Facebook to (...)
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Élections américaines : entre Facebook et Trump, un mariage de réseau - 14 octobre 2020
Son patron, Mark Zuckerberg, a beau s’en défendre, Facebook est accusé de faire le lit du conspirationnisme et le jeu de Donald Trump, plus conciliant à son égard que le camp démocrate. Au point d’avoir scellé un pacte avec le président ?
Octobre 2019 : alors qu’il est à Washington pour être cuisiné par le Congrès, Mark (...)
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Sécurité intérieure : surveiller pour protéger ? - 13 octobre 2020
Fondé en 1950, l’Office fédéral allemand de protection de la Constitution se veut un "système d’alerte précoce" contre les menaces pesant sur la démocratie. Accusé récemment de négliger la montée des violences imputées à l’extrême droite, comment cet organisme s’adapte-t-il ?
Fondé en 1950 et s’appuyant, depuis la réunification, (...)
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Facebook to ban content that denies or distorts the Holocaust - 13 octobre 2020
Mark Zuckerberg says his thinking has evolved after increase in antisemitic violence
Facebook says it is updating its hate speech policy to ban content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.
The decision comes two years after its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, said in an interview with the tech website Recode (...)
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Why the right-wing has a massive advantage on Facebook - 27 septembre 2020
A company executive responds to claims of bias.
Throughout 2020, Democrats have denounced Facebook with growing ferocity as a "right-wing echo chamber" with a “conservative bias” that’s giving an edge to Donald Trump in November.
But Facebook says there’s a reason why right-wing figures are driving more engagement. (...)
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Did FBI Downplay the Far-Right Politics of Stephen Paddock ? - 25 septembre 2020
After Paddock killed 58 people in 2017, the FBI said he had no political motives. The evidence demands a second look.
Three years after the worst mass shooting in recent American history, the FBI has yet to identify a motive explaining what could have driven Stephen Paddock to open fire on a crowded music (...)
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Delivery companies unveil labor deal with Italian far-right union - 24 septembre 2020
The deal could allow the likes of Uber Eats and Deliveroo to avoid additional regulation.
A coalition of food-delivery companies on Wednesday unveiled a deal with a far-right-affiliated Italian union, pushing through their version of employee protection for gig workers as an alternative to classifying them as (...)
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Les liaisons dangereuses d’Uber Eats & co avec l’extrême droite italienne - 24 septembre 2020
En signant un accord avec le syndicat minoritaire UGL, les plateformes de livraison tentent d’échapper à la régulation.
Un accord « pirate » ? Le 16 septembre, plusieurs plateformes italiennes de livraison de nourriture ont dévoilé la convention collective signée avec le syndicat minoritaire d’extrême droite UGL.
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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 (...)
