SocialNetwork
plainte
Volunteer sleuths track down Hawaii’s quarantine scofflaws - 25 septembre 2020
Former longtime television reporter Angela Keen knows how to track people down.
During the coronavirus pandemic, she’s putting her skills to use finding tourists who defy Hawaii’s mandatory two-week quarantine on arriving travelers.
When members of her Facebook group spot tourists posting about their beach trips (...)
analyse
An earthquake shook Tanzania. A new law prohibits citizens from speaking about it online. - 24 septembre 2020
New online content regulations prohibit certain topics without government approval
When a major earthquake of 6.0 on the Richter scale shook coastal East Africa at around 8:15 on August 12, Tanzanians quickly took to Twitter to report on the unusual natural event that momentarily swayed chandeliers, shattered (...)
analyse
A Chinese city withdraws ’civility code’ following online criticism - 24 septembre 2020
Despite censorship, criticism of the plan flooded Chinese social media
Building upon the successful implementation of its “health code” system in restricting citizens’ movement during COVID-19 pandemic, Suzhou — a Chinese city near Shanghai — attempted to launch a “civility code” in early September to rank citizens’ (...)
analyse
Why don’t more people say f**k the algorithm ? - 21 septembre 2020
Protest movements around the world have become inherently digital, but why are there so few protests responding to governments’ online actions ? And find out how volunteers are tracking down tourists breaking quarantine in Hawaii.
We live in a digital society. But while the internet’s relationship with protest (...)
analyse
Hate Speech on Facebook Is Pushing Ethiopia Dangerously Close to a Genocide - 14 septembre 2020
Ethnic violence set off by the assassination of a popular singer has been supercharged by hate speech and incitements shared widely on the platform.
Throughout his life, Ethiopian singer Hachalu Hundessa sang about love, unity, and raising the marginalized voices of his Oromo ethnic group.
He had always tried to (...)
analyse
Why Facebook’s political-ad ban is taking on the wrong problem - 10 septembre 2020
A moratorium on new political ads just before election day tackles one kind of challenge caused by social media. It’s just not the one that matters.
When Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would stop accepting political advertising in the week before the US presidential election, he was responding to (...)
analyse
Nice - 7 septembre 2020
Projet « Safe City »
À Nice, dans le cadre du « Projet d’expérimentation Safe City » voté par la Ville en juin, Thales et le consortium qu’il dirige veulent aller plus loin, en créant le « Waze de la sécurité » à la mode Big Data. Pour aider les « décideurs », il s’agit de « collecter le maximum de données existantes et d’en (...)
analyse
Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat. - 4 septembre 2020
A vital connection for the Chinese diaspora, the app has also become a global conduit of Chinese state propaganda, surveillance and intimidation. The United States has proposed banning it.
Just after the 2016 presidential election in the United States, Joanne Li realized the app that connected her to fellow (...)
analyse
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.
From the left, (...)
analyse
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 (...)
Écouter
EPISODE 4 : TIKTOK and Ya don’t stop - 27 août 2020
This week we talk Tik Tok. In recent weeks there has been a lot of fear around this app owned by Chinese company Bytedance, as President Donald Trump declared that he was considering a nation-wide ban on the popular platform.
Our guest for this episode is Shoshana Wodinsky, tech reporter for Gizmodo who writes (...)
analyse
Manipulations numériques en Afrique, par André-Michel Essoungou - 26 août 2020
Début juin, Facebook a fermé 446 pages, 96 groupes et plus de 200 comptes Instagram administrés par la société franco-tunisienne URéputation. Celle-ci aurait cherché à influencer, par la diffusion de fausses informations, des élections en Afrique francophone. Laboratoire mondial des manipulations numériques, le continent (...)
analyse
Secret Service Bought Phone Location Data from Apps, Contract Confirms - 21 août 2020
An internal Secret Service document describes the purchase of Locate X, a product that uses location data harvested from ordinary apps.
The Secret Service paid for a product that gives the agency access to location data generated by ordinary apps installed on peoples’ smartphones, an internal Secret Service (...)
analyse
Peut-on militer sur les réseaux sociaux ? - 12 août 2020
À l’instar des combats féministes et écologistes, les activistes s’emparent des réseaux sociaux où fusent des photos de soutien et des hashtags. Peut-on encore parler de militantisme ? Comment conjuguer le monde « virtuel » du cyberactivisme et le monde « réel » des mobilisations dans les rues ?
Ceux qui fréquentent (...)
analyse
The Inside Story of How Facebook Acquired Instagram - 11 août 2020
The social giant’s controversial $1 billion acquisition shows how a tech monopoly wields power
Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram was a watershed moment for Big Tech. It demonstrated just how much wealth and power the industry holds — and how it could be wielded. Secret emails, published as part of a (...)
analyse
Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur l’économie des sites de rencontres (sans jamais oser le demander) - 11 août 2020
Vous êtes en quête d’une relation durable ou d’une rencontre sans lendemain ? Inscrivez-vous à Tinder ou à Bumble. Ou encore, si vos préférences sont nettement plus ciblées, à GlutenfFreeSingles ou ClownDating. Les algorithmes ont remplacé les agences matrimoniales et la drague à l’ancienne. L’analyse économique s’était (...)
analyse
L’œil inquisiteur du régime chinois - 10 août 2020
Enquête« La preuve par l’image » (1/5). Comment des Etats, des particuliers ou des groupes de pression s’appuient sur l’image pour se protéger ou établir une vérité. Dans cet épisode, la Chine, où la vidéo-surveillance massive joue un rôle central dans le contrôle de la population. Ou encore dans la répression de la minorité (...)
information
Brazil Bolsonaro : Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters - 2 août 2020
Facebook has complied with an order by Brazil’s Supreme Court to block the accounts of a dozen top allies of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
The group are accused of spreading fake news against judges.
However, the social media giant said the measure was a threat to freedom of speech, and said it would appeal (...)
analyse
Parler, le réseau social « refuge » des conservateurs américains - 29 juillet 2020
Déçus par la politique de modération de Twitter, de nombreux utilisateurs ont décidé de rejoindre ce réseau devenu un repaire pour la droite comme pour l’extrême droite.
Il y a encore quelques semaines, Parler était un réseau social à la marge, comme il en existe tant. Un service qui n’avait pas dépassé le million (...)
analyse
If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention - 28 juillet 2020
Facebook and America are now indivisible, says the Observer journalist who broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal – and the world is a sicker place for it
In 2016, we didn’t know. We were innocent. We still believed social media connected us and that connections were good. That technology equalled progress. And (...)
