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“A Facebook spokesman said: “We don’t believe that it’s an appropriate role for us to referee political debates. Nor do we think it would be appropriate to prevent a politician’s speech from reaching its audience and being subject to public debate and scrutiny.”
Facebook’s decision comes as the rival service TikTok takes the opposite stance. In a blogpost, the social network, whose reported 500 million users would make it the largest in the world not owned by Facebook, made clear it would not be hosting any political adverts.”

Source : Facebook exempts political ads from ban on making false claims | Technology | The Guardian

13 octobre 2019 / noflux

“Data dredging (also data fishing, data snooping, data butchery, and p-hacking) is the misuse of data analysis to find patterns in data that can be presented as statistically significant when in fact there is no real underlying effect. This is done by performing many statistical tests on the data and only paying attention to those that come back with significant results, instead of stating a single hypothesis about an underlying effect before the analysis and then conducting a single test for it.”

Source : Data dredging – Wikipedia

13 octobre 2019 / noflux

relates to France Set to Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program

“You can look at France’s use of facial recognition for digital identity in two ways: it goes too far in terms of privacy, or they’re using the most secure new technology. Are they a front-runner or are they overstepping the mark?”

Source : French Liberte Tested by Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Plan – Bloomberg

13 octobre 2019 / noflux

GitHub is really good at visualizing burnout. pic.twitter.com/OdncS2UK66

— Jonnie Hallman (@destroytoday) October 6, 2019

“For context, I spent 5 years working day & night on my own app before burning out really hard. Then, I joined @stripe , who has been unbelievable supportive in helping me recover. ”

13 octobre 2019 / noflux

Source : Try to impeach this? Challenge accepted! / KDO / Observable

13 octobre 2019 / noflux

“Newcomers to Wikipedia may not understand that discussion about what gets added or deleted from entries isn’t done behind closed doors. Rather, it happens on the publicly accessible “notes” pages of each entry—where volunteers will discuss edits and have open discussions on whether changes should go forward or not. Editing Wikipedia pages helps users understand just how malleable knowledge is, says Alex Jung, the University of Toronto’s Wikipedian-in-residence. If someone makes substantive edits to an entry, “someone who visited the page today will have an entirely different idea of the topic than someone who visited it yesterday. Knowledge is fluctuating all the time.””

Source : Why universities are hiring “Wikipedeans-in-Residence”

13 octobre 2019 / noflux

Pensive sad woman sitting on a bed

“Federal prosecutors have charged three men and a woman with sex trafficking charges for operating the popular porn site GirlsDoPorn. At least 22 women featured on the site have sued the site’s owners, charging that the pornographers used lies and coercion to gain their participation. The 22 women said they responded to ads for clothed modeling gigs. When they were asked to shoot porn instead, they initially resisted. But they went along with it after the company assured them that their videos would only be sold on DVD to customers outside the United States and would not be posted online. That turned out to be a lie, as their videos wound up on GirlsDoPorn, a website with plenty of American viewers.”

Source : Feds hit GirlsDoPorn owners with criminal sex trafficking charges | Ars Technica

13 octobre 2019 / noflux

“Pour relier le futur quartier au centre-ville, la société engage la collectivité à créer une nouvelle ligne de métro léger et propose, magnanime, de lui prêter les fonds. Enfin, estimant qu’on ne peut pas innover dans les vieux cadres réglementaires, Sidewalk Labs suggère qu’on le laisse créer cinq organes de gouvernance ad hoc pour gérer les transports, l’urbanisme, les déchets, etc., en lieu et place des autorités municipales existantes. « Cela reviendrait à créer une zone économique spéciale, avec une privatisation de la gouvernance : c’est un accaparement du pouvoir, doublé d’un accaparement de terres et d’un accaparement de données », fulmine Thorben Wieditz.”

Source : A Toronto, « Google City » à quitte ou double

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