By Zeynep Tufekci, part of MIT Technology Review's September/October 2018 Issue. "To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves." and perhaps also to look beyond the USA...
"Dissidents can more easily circumvent censorship, but the public sphere they can now reach is often too noisy and confusing for them to have an impact. Those hoping to make positive social change have to convince people both that something in the world needs changing and there is a constructive, reasonable way to change it. Authoritarians and extremists, on the other hand, often merely have to muddy the waters and weaken trust in general so that everyone is too fractured and paralyzed to act. The old gatekeepers blocked some truth and dissent, but they blocked many forms of misinformation too."
"Perhaps the simplest statement of the problem, though, is encapsulated in Facebook’s original mission statement (which the social network changed in 2017, after a backlash against its role in spreading misinformation). It was to make the world “more open and connected.” It turns out that this isn’t necessarily an unalloyed good. Open to what, and connected how? The need to ask those questions is perhaps the biggest lesson of all."
This article is not going to cover what React is or why you should learn it. Instead, this is a practical introduction to the fundamentals of React.js for those who are already familiar with JavaScript and know the basics of the DOM API.
Premier article d’une série consacrée aux algorithmes et à leur utilisation par les pouvoirs publics. Pour le sociologue Dominique Cardon, l’algorithme accompagne l’évolution d’une société marquée par une individualisation des rapports et une dérive vers la méritocratie.
in a syllabus from June 2017, The Supreme Court of the USA underlines the importance of the internet in relation to the first amendment to the US constitution. The internet's forums are decribed as "what for many are the principal sources for knowing current events, checking ads for employment, speaking and listening in the modern public square, and otherwise exploring the vast realms of human thought and knowledge."
Aug 2017,
"The court continued that although there may have been difficulty in the past identifying the most important places for the exchange of views, today the answer is “clear”—it is “cyberspace,” the “vast democratic forums of the Internet” in general and “social media in particular.”
In einer Studie zur Umsetzung der Datenschutzgrundverordnung fielen insbesondere Google und Facebook negativ auf. Besser schnitt Microsoft mit Windows 10 ab.
Many deep learning frameworks have been released over the past few years. Among them, PyTorch from Facebook AI Research is very unique and has gained widespread adoption because of its elegance…
„The Cleaners“ ist eine Reise in eine versteckte Schattenindustrie in Manila mitten in das Herz digitaler Zensur – dorthin wo das Internet von kontroversen Inhalten „gesäubert“ werden muss. Wer kontrolliert, was wir sehen und was wir denken?
In wenigen Wochen legt das Europaparlament seine Position für ein europäisches Leistungsschutzrecht fest. Im Interview mit Golem.de erläutert die Abgeordnete Julia Reda,
Wo sind die Fake-News im Bundestagswahlkampf 2017 hergekommen? Einer Studie zufolge nutzen Rechtspopulisten häufig schlecht recherchierte Meldungen klassischer Medien aus.
Hater gab es schon immer. Heute sind sie vernetzt und schwer bewaffnet. Ihre Geschütze: YouTube, Facebook, Twitter. Seit 18 Monaten werden meine Familie und ich
Before the year 2014, there were many people using Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Today, there are still many people using services from those three tech giants (respectively, GOOG, FB, AMZN). However, the underlying dynamics of power on the Web have drastically changed, and those three companies are at the center of a fundamental transformation of the Web.
Facebook hat Donald Trump beim Einzug ins Weiße Haus maßgeblich geholfen. Das ist ein Ergebnis eines zweijährigen Forschungsprojekts an einer Münchner Hochschule. Als Kanzlermacher tauge das Netzwerk aber noch nicht. Doch der Erfolg der AfD im Netz lässt aufhorchen. <em>Von Jürgen P. Lang. </em>
Der Psychologe Michal Kosinski hat eine Methode entwickelt, um Menschen anhand ihres Verhaltens auf Facebook minutiös zu analysieren. Und verhalf so Donald Trump mit zum Sieg.
Finian Cunningham RT 18 Oct, 2017
Facebook, the world’s top social media platform, is reportedly seeking to hire hundreds of employees with US national security clearance licenses.
Der Wissenschaftliche Dienst des Bundestages erkennt "Bedarf" an einer Regulierung der Algorithmen. Aber schon die seltsame Fixierung auf den Begriff ist irreführend.
Online social interactions are no substitute for the real thing. Holly Shakia och Nicholas Christakis; se även Anna Rotkirchs kolumn Facebook gör dig olycklig , Hbl 13.10.2017
Zahlreiche kritische Facebook-Kommentare wurden gelöscht, vor allem bei SPÖ und Grünen. Die meisten Beleidigungen finden sich bei den Neos, die meisten Hasspostings bei der FPÖ
The Numbers Speak For Themselves
Skillfully targeting ads based on personal information users share, the site knows what it’s doing.
Annual revenue by year
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
$272M $777M $1.97B $3.71B $5.09B $7.8B
82%
Proportion of first-quarter 2012 revenue from advertising : $872 million
Facebook’s first-quarter 2012 advertising sales: $186 million
The rest of its millions is due in large part to its virtual games... such as selling credits for games like FarmVille
Facebook and Microsoft are today introducing Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format, a standard for representing deep learning models that enables models to be transferred between frameworks. ONNX is the first step toward an open ecosystem where AI developers can easily move between state-of-the-art tools and choose the combination that is best for them. When…
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G. Ottoni, and B. Liu. 2021 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), page 340-350. Los Alamitos, CA, USA, IEEE Computer Society, (March 2021)