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Re: Special Envoy: the danger Facebook?




by Christophe » 19/02/20, 09:36

So interesting little super fast observations:

Facebook VS Linkedin views

I have 1000 subscribers to the FB page of the site (I know it's very weak but there is nothing we can do against robotic political censorship!): When I post I have, at best, 300 people affected ... 30% of reach at best (most of the time it's between 50 and 150)

A person affected is a sight ... not even an interaction (but you need a sight for an interaction obviously)

I have 51 relationships on Linkedin, when I publish something I have 100 to 150 views. So 200 to 300% reach ...

LinkedIn is therefore 10 times more effective than the facebook scam! : Cheesy:
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Re: Special Envoy: the danger Facebook?




by Christophe » 01/03/20, 13:21

Another danger (again) of Facebook is automatic translations ... risky !!

Ah ah ah is translated into Oh my god ?? : Mrgreen:

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Re: Special Envoy: the danger Facebook?




by Christophe » 30/08/20, 09:09

And another smoky translation ... very smoky ...

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I gladly accept the approximation of machine translations but how is it possible that 10 years could become 7000 ???
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Re: Special Envoy: the danger Facebook?




by Flytox » 25/09/20, 21:29

https://www.developpez.com/actu/308984/Facebook-a-ete-un-desastre-pour-le-monde-et-laisse-sa-plateforme-fomenter-la-haine-et-saper-la-democratie-d-apres-Jamelle-Bouie-du-New-York-Times/

Facebook has been a disaster for the world, and lets its platform foment hatred and undermine democracy,
According to Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times



Facebook has transformed the era of social networking by establishing itself on the Internet as an essential means of connecting individuals or legal entities. The platform has been incredibly lucrative for its CEO and founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who is among the richest men in the world. But the social network "has been a disaster for the world itself, a powerful vector of paranoia, propaganda and conspiracy, as well as authoritarian repression and vicious attacks on the free press," wrote a columnist in a opinion piece published in the New York Times on Friday.

If Facebook has been a successful industry for its creator, the platform is constantly being criticized by its detractors. The latest reviews came from Jamelle Bouie, columnist at the NYT. According to him, the actions of the social network lead to "chaos and destabilization", to the point that he wonders how much longer the platform will be free to foment hatred and to undermine democracy in the world.

To back up his criticism, the columnist cited the Myanmar military's use of Facebook for years to incite hatred and genocidal violence against the country's predominantly Muslim Rohingya minority group. Facebook has reportedly acted as a relay and catalyst for the ethnic crisis and cleansing in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, resulting in mass deaths and displacement. It wasn't until 2018 that Facebook admitted its inaction, shut down its free Internet access service Free Basics in the country, and apologized, as criticism against the company grew louder.


This year, it is in Ethiopia - where the recent violent assassination of Hachalu Hundessa, singer and political activist of the country's Oromo ethnic group, led to violence in the capital, Addis Ababa - that Facebook is questioned. This bloodshed was "exacerbated by the almost instantaneous and widespread sharing of hate speech and incitement to violence on Facebook, which angered people," Bouie reported, citing a recent report. This tragic event comes after a similar incident in 2019, where disinformation shared on Facebook helped catapult the violence that left 86 people dead in Ethiopia's Oromia region, according to the columnist.

The latest events in Ethiopia came at the same time as a new memo from a former Facebook employee as the platform's data specialist, Sophie Zhang, who claims the company has ignored global political manipulation, or was late in acting in some cases. The memo obtained by BuzzFeed News shows the company's refusal to take action against governments and political parties that use fake accounts to spread propaganda, deceive citizens and influence elections.

In the course of his work, Zhang has found evidence of coordinated campaigns of various sizes to stimulate or hinder political candidates or results in countries such as India, Ukraine, Spain, Brazil, Bolivia and Ecuador, although it has not always concluded who was behind these campaigns.

“During my three years on Facebook, I have discovered multiple blatant attempts by foreign governments to abuse our platform on a large scale to deceive their own citizens, and have caused international news to multiple occasions, ”Zhang wrote. "I have personally made decisions that have affected unattended national presidents and have taken steps to enforce them against so many prominent politicians around the world that I have lost count," she continued. .

According to the NYT columnist, the most disturbing revelations in Zhang's note concern Facebook's failure to take swift action against coordinated activity in countries like Honduras and Azerbaijan, where political leaders have used armed with fake accounts to attack opponents and undermine the independent media. “We just didn't care enough to stop them,” she wrote.

Facebook and other social media are exploited in multiple ways by authoritarian regimes, including "framing public debate on their terms"

Jamelle Bouie also quotes Siva Vaidhyanathan, a media specialist at the University of Virginia, in her book "Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy". According to Professor Vaidhyanathan, "There are five main ways that authoritarian regimes exploit Facebook and other social media services."

They can "organize counter-movements to emerging civil society or protest movements", "frame public debate on their terms", allow citizens "to express complaints without appeal or direct protest" and "coordinate between elites to rally support ”. They can also use social media to help "monitor and harass opposition activists and journalists," the opinion piece read.

Bouie also recalls other similar activities around the world, the use of Facebook and other social media in Russia by allies of President Vladimir Putin to harass critics and spread disinformation on behalf of the regime. In India, Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata party also used Facebook to "stir up anti-Muslim passions and channel people to the polls" as well as to "destroy the reputations of journalists, civil society activists, critics of anti-Islamic policies and political enemies, ”the columnist reported, quoting Vaidhyanathan.

According to Facebook's own survey, the platform is home to thousands of Qanon groups and pages, with millions of members and followers, according to an article published by NBC News in August. Qanon is a community of promoters of a conspiracy theory that alleges the existence of a pedophile cabal controlling world affairs. According to internal documents seen by NBC News, Facebook has contributed to this growth of the group on its platform.

Indeed, the columnist reports that the social network's recommendation algorithms push users to engage in QAnon's content, spreading the conspiracy to people who might never have encountered it otherwise. The columnist also cites a report from the German Marshall Fund which links the recent wave of fire conspiracies - false reports of arson attacks in Oregon by the antifa group - with the uncontrolled spread of rumors and disinformation on Facebook.

But Facebook isn't let down by the critics. Following Zhang's memo, a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement, “We have assembled specialized teams, working with leading experts, to prevent bad actors from abusing our systems, which has resulted in the removal of more than 100 networks for coordinated inauthentic behavior ”. “Working against coordinated inauthentic behavior is our priority, but we are also addressing issues of spam and fake engagements. We carefully study every issue, including those Ms. Zhang raises, before acting or making public statements as a business.

Earlier this month, the Facebook boss announced measures to curb election-related misinformation and end the crackdown on voters, and to support efforts to help Americans register and vote.

“This election is not going to be business as usual. We all have a responsibility to protect our democracy. It means helping people register and vote, clearing up the confusion over how this election will work and taking action to reduce the risk of violence and unrest ”. "Facebook is already running the largest election information campaign in US history - with the goal of helping 4 million people register and vote," read a statement shared on Facebook.

"I believe our democracy is strong enough to withstand this challenge and to ensure free and fair elections, even though it takes time for every vote to be counted," Zuckerberg wrote. “We have already voted in global pandemics. We can do it ".

According to the NYT columnist, Zuckerberg is correct that American democracy can survive a pandemic. What is not certain, however, is whether she can survive a platform optimized for the conspiracy, he writes.

Source: Jamelle Bouie of the News York Times
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Re: Special Envoy: the danger Facebook?




by Christophe » 19/10/20, 14:50

Flytox wrote:https://www.developpez.com/actu/308984/Facebook-a-ete-un-desastre-pour-le-monde-et-laisse-sa-plateforme-fomenter-la-haine-et-saper-la-democratie-d-apres-Jamelle-Bouie-du-New-York-Times/

Facebook has been a disaster for the world, and lets its platform foment hatred and undermine democracy,
According to Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times


Unfortunately very premonitory article of the new Islamist catastrophe that France experienced last Friday ...

Okay, coincidentally, I just deleted all RS related scripts on the forum for optimization and anti-tracking purposes ... speed and navigation will only improve ...

You can always share some pages by copying / pasting the url wherever you want ...

ps: on the other hand I do not understand the "was" ... It is IS that we must read ...
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Re: Special Envoy: the danger Facebook?




by Christophe » 24/12/20, 18:17

Facebook doesn't even know how to translate Christmas correctly:

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Re: Special Envoy: the danger Facebook?




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Re: Special Envoy: the danger Facebook?




by Christophe » 08/01/21, 18:03

The biggest Facebook danger is still having given a voice to idiots ...

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by GuyGadeboisTheBack » 08/01/21, 18:59

Well yes, and tomorrow we will see appear the "Lynching challenge" with option "Charles Bronson aka Le justicier" where everyone will have to participate in the execution of a convict by these new populist courts.
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Re: Special Envoy: the danger Facebook?




by Macro » 10/01/21, 08:58

Christophe wrote:The biggest Facebook danger is still having given a voice to idiots ...



Ha good ... I could possibly speak openly there ??? shit I missed something by never having opened an account ...
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