BAD TACTIC: The Senate released this Thursday the conclusions of its commission of inquiry called “The TikTok Tactic: opacity, addiction and Chinese Shadows” “The TikTok Tactic: Opacity, Addiction and Chinese Shadows”. Here is the name of the Commission of inquiry meeting in the Senate this Thursday to make the conclusions around the interference of the Chinese […]
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Many US lawmakers believe the TikTok platform allows Beijing to spy on and manipulate users In the United States, the war against TikTok took a new step on Wednesday. The governor of Montana has signed into law the law banning the app in that US state, marking the start of a likely legal battle all the way […]
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SOCIAL NETWORKS: The operation should reduce the number of Twitter subscribers of many users, warned the multi-billionaire Elon Musk warned on Monday that Twitter users risk seeing their number of subscribers drop soon. The owner of the social network has indeed taken the decision to deactivate unused accounts. “We’re eliminating accounts that haven’t been active at all for years,” the […]
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DEEPFAKE: “AI can make it harder to distinguish between fact and fiction, which carries both societal and individual risks,” the company said. TikTok officials recently announced their intention to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) on the social network. Among the measures taken is the prohibition since Tuesday of images showing private persons generated by an AI such […]
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GREAT SHAPE: The Chinese platform, TikTok had already surpassed YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Beijing and Washington do not only clash with a “spy” balloon. The competition between the two powers is also played out at the platform level, and China, thanks to TikTok, is winning. After surpassing YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook in “time spent” by American adults on each platform, the platform, which […]
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CYBER ATTACK: LinkedIn confirmed the information but said the hackers had neither launched an attack nor exploited any security flaw in its servers. LinkedIn confirmed this Thursday on its site a major data leak. On Tuesday, the Cyber news site revealed that the personal data of 500 million LinkedIn profiles were being sold on the Internet by cybercriminals. The professional social network, however, claims […]
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VENEZUELA: The Venezuelan head of state, Nicolas Maduro is accused of promoting the drug Carvativir Facebook announced on Saturday that it had “blocked” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s account for 30 days after the latter’s “repeated violations” of the American company’s policy on disinformation linked to Covid-19. “Due to repeated violations of our regulations, we blocked the page for 30 days during which […]
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SOCIAL NETWORKS: By April, all Twitter users will be able to create voice rooms called spaces and join others on the social network. Twitter has just updated its application on iOS. And by consulting the new features of this new version, users were able to discover Spaces, reports The Verge relayed by 01net . This new service will allow users to create live […]
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SOCIAL NETWORKS: The decision of Twitter over the suspension of Donald Trump’s Account is “problematic”, says the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel Following the incidents that occurred on January 6 in Washington, Donald Trump was banned from several social platforms. The outgoing president has indeed been held responsible for the incidents that led to the invasion of the seat […]
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Twitter has hidden a post from Iran’s Supreme Leader after he promoted a coronavirus vaccine conspiracy theory, claiming his country could not trust British and American jabs. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed vaccines imported from the UK and the US were ‘completely untrustworthy’ because it was ‘not unlikely’ the countries ‘would want to contaminate other nations’. […]
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