“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
“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”.
“Lyu says a skilled forger could get around his eye-blinking tool simply by collecting images that show a person blinking. But he adds that his team has developed an even more effective technique, but says he’s keeping it secret for the moment. “I’d rather hold off at least for a little bit,” Lyu says. “We have a little advantage over the forgers right now, and we want to keep that advantage.””
Source : The Defense Department has produced the first tools for catching deepfakes – MIT Technology Review
“Ce compte, dont l’activité frénétique peut faire penser à celle d’un robot, semble bien tenu par un humain, une humaine en l’occurrence : contactée, l’auteure explique consacrer beaucoup de temps à son activité sur Twitter, et notamment à relayer des informations issues d’autres comptes.
Une vérification plus poussée de son activité et de ses échanges tend à confirmer qu’il s’agit bien d’une personne réelle et non d’un robot ou d’un espion russe. On obtiendra la même réponse en se penchant sur plusieurs possesseurs de compte, souvent « fiers », d’ailleurs, du rythme de leurs retweets, là encore, en général plusieurs centaines par jour”.
Source : L’impossible quête des « bots russes » de l’affaire Benalla
“Une page, intitulée « affronter + résister au fascisme », invitait à se rassembler dans la capitale fédérale les 10 et 12 août. La page promue par les « Resisters » en donnait tous les détails logistiques : 2 600 utilisateurs se sont montrés intéressés et plus de 600 internautes ont fait part de leur intention de participer à l’événement.Sauf que les « Resisters » n’existent pas. Ils font partie des 32 faux comptes Facebook que le groupe de Mark Zuckerberg a repérés depuis deux semaines et dont il a annoncé la désactivation mardi 31 juillet. Ces comptes ont de fortes similitudes avec ceux que manipulait l’Internet Research Agency (IRA), officine russe, inculpée par le procureur spécial cet hiver pour avoir tenté de manipuler l’élection américaine de 2016”.
Source : Derrière des comptes désactivés par Facebook, l’ombre des émeutes de Charlottesville
“Selon la plate-forme, qui a testé en amont le procédé, cela permettrait d’empêcher la création de plus de 50 000 comptes par jour. Si un compte déjà créé est suspecté par Twitter d’être un « bot » malveillant après sa création, la plate-forme pourra également demander à son propriétaire un numéro de téléphone ou une adresse e-mail. Tant qu’il n’aura pas fourni ces éléments, le compte sera en quelque sorte invisibilisé. S’il est abonné à un autre utilisateur, il ne sera pas pris en compte dans le nombre d’abonnés de ce dernier. S’il a retweeté l’un de ses messages, même chose : le retweet ne sera pas comptabilisé. Pour Twitter, cela permettrait d’empêcher que des « bots » se suivent entre eux, faisant ainsi gonfler de manière artificielle leur nombre d’abonnés pour « booster leur crédibilité »”.
Source : Twitter veut rendre la création de « bots » malveillants plus complexe
“In one particularly brazen example, ads were run promoting both a “Pro-Beyonce Protest Rally” and an “Anti-Beyonce Protest Rally” scheduled for the same time time and place following the controversy over the artist’s performance at the 2016 Super Bowl. The pro-Beyoncé ad was targeted at users designated as having African American behaviors. The anti-Beyoncé ad was targeted narrowly at people who had studied to become a police officer or whose job title matched a list of law enforcement or military titles, including officer, colonel, major general (United States), master sergeant, commander (United States), sergeant, brigadier general, petty officer, chief petty officer, lieutenant commander, squadron leader, 911 dispatcher or rear admiral”.
Source : #BlueLivesMatter and Beyoncé: Russian Facebook ads hit hot-button US issues | US news | The Guardian
“After months of pursuing the case, Schneiderman and his team finally got access to documents that allowed them to come to the conclusion that the perpetrators stole as many as 2 million American identities. « The first three words in our Constitution are, ‘We the People.’ The federal rulemaking process is an essential part of our democracy and allows Americans the opportunity to express their opinions on how government agencies decide important regulatory issues. As such, we are concerned about the aforementioned fraudulent activity. We need to prevent the deliberate misuse of Americans’ personal information and ensure that the FCC is working to protect against current and future vulnerabilities in its system. »”
Source : Senators ask the FCC to investigate fake net neutrality comments
«In its first quarterly Community Standards Enforcement Report, Facebook said the overwhelming majority of moderation action was against spam posts and fake accounts: it took action on 837m pieces of spam, and shut down a further 583m fake accounts on the site in the three months. But Facebook also moderated 2.5m pieces of hate speech, 1.9m pieces of terrorist propaganda, 3.4m pieces of graphic violence and 21m pieces of content featuring adult nudity and sexual activity».
Source : Facebook closed 583m fake accounts in first three months of 2018 | Technology | The Guardian
«Epstein’s group asked 661 Americans to pick one of two candidates in an Australian election. Since it was presumed they did not know much about Antipodean politics, the participants were instructed to research them with a Google-type search engine that offered the usual autocomplete suggestions when words were typed in. However, the researchers also varied the search suggestions shown beneath a candidate’s name, including a range of positive and negative words. The results were stark. When participants were later questioned about their voting preferences, changing the ratio of positive to negative suggestions in the autocomplete was shown to be capable of shifting the preferences of undecided voters by nearly 80 per cent — even though participants seemed free to search for any material they wanted».
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