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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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Malgorithm - 26 mars 2021
How Instagram’s algorithm publishes misinformation and hate to millions during a pandemic
When it launched in 2010, Instagram – the social media giant acquired by Facebook in 2012 – was a pitched as a simple and fun app for sharing photos with friends and family. Since then, it has become a networked behemoth (...)
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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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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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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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Why T-Shirts Promoting the Capitol Riot Are Still Available Online - 19 janvier 2021
Merchandise with phrases like “Battle for Capitol Hill Veteran” could still be purchased on major e-commerce sites, a sign of how the platforms have struggled to remove the goods.
The day after the violent attack on the Capitol, Shopify declared that it had removed e-commerce sites affiliated with President Trump, (...)
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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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The Instagram Insurrection - 11 janvier 2021
The first inkling I had that something was very wrong on Wednesday was when my wife said, “Oh shit, is this real ?” as we were en route to Trader Joe’s after spending a few hours on the cold, sun-drenched beaches of Long Island for a winter walk on our last day of a vacation. A friend had texted about the Capitol. (...)
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How QAnon Conspiracy Theories Spread in My Hometown - 10 janvier 2021
During the pandemic, some of the people I grew up with got sucked into QAnon and the Q-adjacent “Save the Children” movement.
Earlier this summer, I noticed this alarming shift in my Facebook feed. Childhood friends and old high school acquaintances began plastering my timeline with posts referring to a satanic (...)
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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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Facebook, QAnon and the world’s slackening grip on reality - 11 novembre 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has left us living more and more of our lives online. But the place where we chat with friends, get our news and form our opinions is full of vile and dangerous conspiracy theories. Is the world’s biggest social network doing enough to combat them ?
As with many others in Britain, lockdown (...)
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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’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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Why Facebook Can’t Quash QAnon - 23 août 2020
QAnon has become impossible to ignore. The bizarre, sprawling, right-wing conspiracy theory, which holds that a pseudonymous Trump ally known as Q is involved in a secret battle against a powerful globalist “deep state” linked to pedophilia and Satan worship, has been gathering adherents for years. Supercharged by (...)
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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 (...)
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Down the rabbit hole : how QAnon conspiracies thrive on Facebook - 25 juillet 2020
Guardian investigation finds more than 3m aggregate followers and members support QAnon on Facebook, and their numbers are growing
In early May, QAnon braced for a purge. Facebook had removed a small subset – five pages, six groups and 20 profiles – of the community on the social network, and as word of the bans (...)
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American Boogaloo : Meme or Terrorist Movement ? - 10 juillet 2020
What happens when a meme becomes a terrorist movement ?
On May 29, two federal security officers guarding a courthouse in Oakland, California, were ambushed by machine-gun fire as elsewhere in the city demonstrators marched peacefully to protest the killing of George Floyd. One of the guards, David Patrick (...)
