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Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users’ Location Data, Has Been Archived - 12 janvier 2021
In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately (...)
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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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EFF’s Response to Social Media Companies’ Decisions to Block President Trump’s Accounts - 10 janvier 2021
Like most people in the United States and around the world, EFF is shocked and disgusted by Wednesday’s violent attack on the U.S. Capitol. We support all those who are working to defend the Constitution and the rule of law, and we are grateful for the service of policymakers, staffers, and other workers who (...)
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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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Twitter and Facebook Lock Trump’s Accounts After Violence on Capitol Hill - 7 janvier 2021
The moves came after critics and even some allies of the social media companies said they had failed to prevent the misinformation that led to chaos on Wednesday.
Update : Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, said on Thursday that President Trump would be blocked from its platforms “at least” through the end (...)
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Another “Pre-Crime” AI System Claims It Can Predict Who Will Share Disinformation Before It’s Published - 4 janvier 2021
Another “Pre-Crime” AI System Claims It Can Predict Who Will Share Disinformation Before It’s Published from Activist Post
We previously have covered the many weighty claims made by the progenitors of A.I. algorithms who claim that their technology can stop crime before it happens. Similar predictive A.I. is (...)
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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 met fin à une opération d’interférence en Afrique émanant « d’individus liés à l’armée française » - 16 décembre 2020
Facebook a insisté à plusieurs reprises sur le fait que ces manipulations politiques ne pouvaient pas être directement reliées au gouvernement ou à l’armée française en l’absence de preuves supplémentaires.
Facebook a révélé, mardi 15 décembre, avoir démantelé un réseau de faux comptes associé à « des individus ayant des liens (...)
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En Irlande, Twitter écope d’une amende de 450 000 euros pour non-respect du RGPD - 15 décembre 2020
**Chiffre d’affaires annuel de Twitter en 2019 : 3,459 milliards de dollars**
A la suite d’une brèche de confidentialité pour certains utilisateurs, survenue à la fin de 2018, le réseau social n’a pas informé la Data Protection Commission (DPC) irlandaise suffisamment tôt ni de façon suffisamment détaillée.
La Data (...)
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Twitter accused of censoring Indian critic of Hindu nationalism - 7 décembre 2020
Writers including Salman Rushdie express anger after journalist Salil Tripathi has account suspended
Twitter has been accused of censoring the prominent Indian journalist Salil Tripathi by suspending his account, after he tweeted on subjects including the anniversary of the demolition of the Babri mosque and his (...)
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Kashmiris Interrogated, Tortured by Cyber Police for Tweeting - 7 décembre 2020
The crackdown on social media users in Kashmir is part of a sharp escalation of the Indian government’s censorship efforts.
Ahmed was nervous as he approached the fortified police station, its walls covered with barbed wire and gun-toting cops guarding the entrances. The college student had received a phone call (...)
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Covid-19 has made ending online abuse even more urgent - 5 décembre 2020
Seyi Akiwowo started Glitch ! to hold tech platforms to account when it comes to online abuse – a mission that is more important than ever
When the Covid-19 pandemic forced countries into lockdown and more of our lives moved online, alarm bells rang for Seyi Akiwowo, founder and executive director of UK charity (...)
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Trump Forced Big Tech Out of ‘Neutrality,’ and There’s No Turning Back - 6 novembre 2020
Tech companies once tried to skate above the political fray. No longer.
Whenever Donald Trump walks out of the White House, he’ll leave behind a changed tech industry, one that let go of its reluctance to act politically during his administration, and will likely never go back.
Silicon Valley, for much of its (...)
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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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En Irlande, la carotte sans le bâton pour les géants du numérique - 1er novembre 2020
Deux ans après le tour de vis de Bruxelles sur la protection des données, l’Irlande peine à endosser son rôle de gendarme et a sévir contre les géants américains du numérique qui ont installé dans l’île leur siège européen.
Le "Règlement général sur la protection des données" (RGPD), lancé en 2018, donne plus de pouvoir aux (...)
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Big Tech Continues Its Surge Ahead of the Rest of the Economy - 31 octobre 2020
Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Alphabet reported the latest in a string of enormous quarterly profits on Thursday.
While the rest of the U.S. economy languished earlier this year, the tech industry’s biggest companies seemed immune to the downturn, surging as the country worked, learned and shopped from home.
On (...)
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Congress Fails to Ask Tech CEOs the Hard Questions - 31 octobre 2020
The Big Internet Companies Are Too Powerful, But Undermining Section 230 Won’t Help
The Senate Commerce Committee met this week to question the heads of Facebook, Twitter, and Google about Section 230, the most important law protecting free speech online. Section 230 reflects the common-sense principle that legal (...)
