Cet exemple montre comment un simple militant peut fabriquer, légitimer et propager de fausses informations. Le tout derrière des sites apparemment anodins pour qui tombe par hasard sur un de leurs articles.
Source : « 93 % des Français prêts à voter Marine Le Pen » : itinéraire d’une intox d’extrême droite
« When Donald Trump swept to victory in the Electoral College on Nov. 8, perhaps no group was more surprised than journalists, who had largely bought into the polls showing Hillary Clinton was consistently several percentage points ahead in key swing states ».
Source : Journalists and Trump voters live in separate online bubbles, MIT analysis shows – VICE News
Project : Electome (MIT)
« The AI vastly outperformed a professional lip-reader who attempted to decipher 200 randomly selected clips from the data set. The professional annotated just 12.4 per cent of words without any error. But the AI annotated 46.8 per cent of all words in the March to September data set.
The AI system was trained using some 5000 hours from six different TV programmes, including Newsnight, BBC Breakfast and Question Time. In total, the videos contained 118,000 sentences ».
Source : Google’s DeepMind AI can lip-read TV shows better than a pro | New Scientist
Fil Menczer, a professor of informatics and computing at Indiana University who has studied the spread of misinformation on social media, said Google’s move with AdSense was a positive step. »One of the incentives for a good portion of fake news is money, » he said. « This could cut the income that creates the incentive to create the fake news sites. »However, he cautioned that detecting fake news sites was not easy. « What if it is a site with some real information and some fake news? It requires specialized knowledge and having humans (do it) doesn’t scale, » he said.
Source : Google, Facebook move to restrict ads on fake news sites | Reuters
The review of more than 1,000 posts from six large hyperpartisan Facebook pages selected from the right and from the left also found that the least accurate pages generated some of the highest numbers of shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook — far more than the three large mainstream political news pages analyzed for comparison.
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La question de l’IVG illustre le positionnement difficile du moteur de recherche, qui vit de la publicité et doit en même temps promouvoir des informations fiables pour garder la confiance de ses utilisateurs.
Source : IVG, diabète, cancer… ces intox sur la santé qui polluent Google
While Facebook could not provide demographic breakdowns of the users who registered, the social network is more popular among female internet users than male users, and the same is true for young users compared with older users, according to 2015 data from the Pew Research Center. Both groups — women and younger adults — tend to lean Democratic.
Source : Facebook Helped Drive a Voter Registration Surge, Election Officials Say – The New York Times
At Facebook, we’ve had an internal version of our app to help run our company for many years.
Today we’re announcing that Workplace will now be available to any company or organization that wants to use it.
Source : Introducing Workplace by Facebook | Facebook Newsroom
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