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21 septembre 2018 / noflux

“With a unified model for a large number of languages, we run the risk of being mediocre for each language, which makes the problem challenging. Moreover, it’s difficult to get human-annotated data for many of the languages. Although SynthText has been helpful as a way to bootstrap training, it’s not yet a replacement for human-annotated data sets. We are therefore exploring ways to bridge the domain gap between our synthetic engine and real-world distribution of text on images”.

Source : Rosetta: Understanding text in images and videos with machine learning – Facebook Code

21 septembre 2018 / noflux

“Lors d’une audition devant le Sénat américain, le 5 septembre, le PDG de Twitter, Jack Dorsey, a fait un premier pas timide en direction d’un changement structurel, reconnaissant qu’il était temps d’examiner les « incitations fondamentales » proposées aux utilisateurs des réseaux sociaux. Mais ni Google ni Facebook – qui a fait de la mesure de « l’engagement » un chiffre-clé de son argumentaire publicitaire – ne semblent prêts à remettre leurs modèles en question”.

Source : La très problématique modération des réseaux sociaux

21 septembre 2018 / noflux

“In addition to the explicit gender-targeting, Facebook also offers advertisers the ability to use what it calls “Lookalike Targeting,” which allows advertisers to target customers with traits similar to those of their customer base. To understand why this is problematic in the employment context, consider a company with an all-white workforce, which decided to recruit and hire only applicants that “look like” their current workforce. Such a hiring strategy would plainly perpetuate the exclusion of workers of color, violating laws, including Title VII, that prohibit employment practices that have a discriminatory effect”.

Source : How Facebook Is Giving Sex Discrimination in Employment Ads a New Life | American Civil Liberties Union

9 septembre 2018 / noflux

“We know that as a parent it may be hard to understand the changing digital landscape and what your kids are doing online. That’s why we’ve created this resource. We’re here to fill you in on what Instagram is all about, give you some conversation starters for you and your teen, and show you some of the tools that are in place to keep your teen safe. You can also download a copy of our Parent’s Guide”.

Source : Instagram Well-Being

2 septembre 2018 / noflux

“One of the signals we use is how people interact with articles,” Lyons said in a follow-up email. “For example, if someone previously gave us feedback that an article was false and the article was confirmed false by a fact-checker, then we might weight that person’s future false-news feedback more than someone who indiscriminately provides false-news feedback on lots of articles, including ones that end up being rated as true.” The score is one signal among many that the company feeds into more algorithms.

Source : Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1 – The Washington Post

29 août 2018 / noflux

“The European Commission is drafting an amendment to party funding rules that would ban political groups from profiting from data collection of the sort alleged against Cambridge Analytica. The UK-based company that worked with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is accused of improperly mining the data of millions of Facebook users”.

Source : EU targets European political parties that misuse voters’ data | Financial Times

29 août 2018 / noflux

“We’re making advertising more transparent to help prevent abuse on Facebook, especially during elections. Today we’re starting to roll out the Ad Archive API, so researchers and journalists can more easily analyze Facebook ads related to politics or issues of national importance”.

Source : Introducing the Ad Archive API | Facebook Newsroom

8 août 2018 / noflux

“The social-media giant has asked large U.S. banks to share detailed financial information about their customers, including card transactions and checking-account balances, as part of an effort to offer new services to users. Facebook increasingly wants to be a platform where people buy and sell goods and services, besides connecting with friends”.

Source : Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data, We’ll Give You Our Users – WSJ

3 août 2018 / noflux

“Si les militants ne reprochent pas à Facebook d’avoir fermé la page Resisters et ne remettent pas en question l’existence d’une tentative de manipulation, ils s’offusquent de la disparition de l’événement. « Facebook ne supprime pas des pages d’extrême droite organisant la haine, mais ils suppriment ceux qui essaient de la contrer », a ainsi réagi ShutItDownDC. Dylan Petrohilos a, quant à lui, fait référence au choix de Facebook de ne pas supprimer les contenus négationnistes, en dehors des pays où le négationnisme est illégal.”

Source : Un « événement » anti-extrême droite victime de la campagne de nettoyage de Facebook

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