[NouvelObs] - Le blocage de TikTok en Nouvelle-Calédonie lors des émeutes en 2024 était « illégal »

Le Conseil d’Etat estime que le blocage du #RéseauSocial a « porté une atteinte disproportionnée aux droits et libertés », mais considère qu’en cas de « circonstances exceptionnelles, il peut être procédé [au blocage] en respectant de strictes conditions ».

https://www.nouvelobs.com/societe/20250401.OBS102193/le-blocage-de-tiktok-en-nouvelle-caledonie-lors-des-emeutes-en-2024-etait-illegal.html

#RéseauxSociaux #SocialNetworks #TikTok
#NouvelleCalédonie
#RevueDePresse #Press

Financial Times: Meet the LinkedIn superusers. “[Paul] Verrico is one of the platform’s superusers — professionals that have amassed networks sometimes reaching tens or even hundreds of thousands of people, which they use to build their brand. For these users, LinkedIn is no longer just a recruitment site but a space to publish content relating to their work, to self-promote, share […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/31/financial-times-meet-the-linkedin-superusers/

finally in print, the last puzzle piece in a decade of thinking about communication across social networks from the perspective of ideal rational agents: how do we factor in ‚dependence‘ - the fact that the same underlying evidence may, for example, reach us via multiple different reports, giving rise to double counting?

There is a strong intuition that multiple independent observations should carry more weight than dependent observations. But how much more?

We show that there is no (known) answer to this normative question in the general case. This renders a fundamental feature of human testimony unsolvable, meaning that acquiring knowledge via the testimony of others is much harder than typically assumed

https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s11229-025-04969-w?sharing_token=T_qZZ-qagNeAgHYmwOsO4Pe4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY7NNaNx5je-8CbqY3NQbXjm1PJgoB0Fw-IBoMYIKgSDlaiwownlR0py9XbHJBti1v6lLN7PlZ2uZJjf_SE6Z-Nwu8xISFeoc5h9Szl4tzerZtJWZwsR6CbwVDWSPlumzIw%3D

#epistemology #SocialNetworks @philosophy

#SocialNetworks that are fed by an #algorithm are causing much harm to you. Just one example of many: https://karl-voit.at/2024/07/13/social-network-filters/

Please do convince your friends and relatives to try out a healthy alternative like the #Fediverse here: https://karl-voit.at/2024/06/18/Fediverse-and-Mastodon/

When you visit your friends and family, tell them about not having #endlessscrolling or #doomscrolling. Tell them about being able to read unfiltered comments and articles. Tell them about not destroying your mental health all the time, following some #influencers that show a wrong picture of the world and the people.

Accounts on servers like https://graz.social are for free. (Donations welcomed: https://info.graz.social/spenden/ )

Have a happy weekend!

Tubefilter: RedNote wants to be more than just a TikTok alternative. Will Westerners buy in?. “Earlier this year, when it looked certain that TikTok would be banned in the United States, many displaced users flocked to RedNote, an app often characterized as the ‘Chinese Instagram.’ Two months later, RedNote’s momentum has stalled, but its leaders are seeing the spike in American interest as […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/27/tubefilter-rednote-wants-to-be-more-than-just-a-tiktok-alternative-will-westerners-buy-in/

TechCrunch: A new social app is fighting rage-bait. “Most existing social networking apps incentivize rage-bait, including Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube. These platforms have programs for creators that pay them based on how many views they get, and enraging content tends to draw more attention. Sez Us wants to break this cycle by allowing users to rate other users’ posts for approval, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/27/techcrunch-a-new-social-app-is-fighting-rage-bait/

Sez Us Is A New Social Media App Punishes Users for Rage-Baiting

https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-e30fdc1f-5a79e955227f0cff

Flattening of Culture

“Is the contemporary city like the contemporary airport: ‘all the same?’”

A very good article by an obviously very clever author! Highly recommended reading

#Culture #SocialNetworks #AI #Taste #Norm #Mainstream #Extremism
https://english.elpais.com/society/2025-03-23/why-everything-looks-the-same-everywhere.html

"I have returned from my quick trip to Austin for a few days at the South by Southwest conference. Last time I was there, Silicon Valley Bank fell apart, which made for a rather entertaining weekend to spend as a fly on the wall around the various tech executives who make their pilgrimages to the conference. By that point in 2023, the shine had already mostly worn off on the crypto excitement compared to the crypto extravaganzas that characterized SXSW during crypto’s peak hype years.

This time, although crypto prices are back up, crypto excitement didn’t seem to be.
(...)
There was a great panel about “Openness Under Pressure”, which touched on similar points as my recent newsletter about open access amid widespread AI scraping. Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the mainstage for a keynote with the inimitable tech journalist (and Bluesky board member) Mike Masnick. She wore an oversized black t-shirt printed with black text that read mundus sine Caesaribus (“a world without Caesars”). It was immediately recognizable to those who had seen Mark Zuckerberg’s custom black-on-black aut Zuck aut nihil (“Zuck or nothing”) shirt at a Meta event last year, an egomaniacal play on aut Caesar aut nihilb and a nod to the emperor after whom Zuckerberg has long styled himself.

Her message was clear: we need a world resilient to the outsized power of Zuckerbergian billionaire emperors. And we need platforms that are, as she and Masnick put it, “billionaire-proof”. I couldn’t agree more.

Sadly, for now we remain in a very much not billionaire-proof world, so I will now update you on how that’s all been going."

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-79/

New York Times: ‘Will I Lose My Job?’ Federal Workers Flock to Reddit for Answers.. This link goes to a gift article. “With the Trump administration’s rapid downsizing of the federal bureaucracy, subreddits where government workers previously posted the occasional tale about a Zoom meeting mishap or health plan question have become crowded forums for fears, anxieties and tidbits of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/21/new-york-times-will-i-lose-my-job-federal-workers-flock-to-reddit-for-answers/

Fred Rocha: How I use Mastodon in 2025. “These are exciting times to be on Mastodon, one of the flavours of the Fediverse. Things are evolving fast, towards a space worthy of healthier online debate and exchange. Some of these conversations can be found on my own profile, if you’re curious. Here are some of the cool things I have discovered Mastodon lets you do. If you’ve found some neat […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/19/fred-rocha-how-i-use-mastodon-in-2025/

DigitalTrends: Discord is supercharging games with built-in messaging and voice chats. “Discord has announced a new Social SDK to allow developers to integrate Discord-powered communication features directly into their games. This means gamers will be able to message, invite, and voice chat with their friends super easily — even if they don’t have a Discord account.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/19/digitaltrends-discord-is-supercharging-games-with-built-in-messaging-and-voice-chats/

"#TikTok represents somethin radically different from other #socialnetworks that came before it… is really the first #socialmedia platform that is truly decentralized. What I mean by this is: It’s not based on #followergraphs. If you look at Instagram Reels or Twitter, how many people see a video or a piece of content is highly correlated with how many followers that person has. TikTok is a lot more random…a lot of content that never would have gotten a lot of views on Twitter or on TV to suddenly escape containment and get directly into the eyes of people who don’t care that much about #politics."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-david-shor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E4.6J-B.ysXRXFP-tmAN&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Meet Feli from Germany | Cincinnati’s Top Content Creators of 2025 https://www.byteseu.com/841767/ #christmas #Cincinnati #Germany #local #LocalNews #Media #networks #News #of #OH #oktoberfest #Overall #OverallPositive #people #PeopleU0026Society #Positive #social #SocialMedia #SocialNetworks #society #u0026 #university #UniversityOfCincinnati #YouTube

Gizmodo: Reddit Accused of Cracking Down on Luigi Mangione Content. “Slate recently noted that some forums on Reddit had been getting censored for their discussion of the accused killer. A moderator for one long-running subreddit, /r/popculture, was suspended by the platform after failing to quell the ongoing discussion of Mangione. The action followed an unusual warning from the site’s […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/17/gizmodo-reddit-accused-of-cracking-down-on-luigi-mangione-content/

TechCrunch: Bluesky users debate plans around user data and AI training. “Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their posts and data to be scraped for things like generative AI training and public archiving.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/17/techcrunch-bluesky-users-debate-plans-around-user-data-and-ai-training/

University of Florida: Chasing followers makes crypto traders perform worse on social investment sites. “The research tracked performance on social investment sites, where individuals can trade assets like cryptocurrency while attracting audiences based on their performance — like YouTube, but for investments. Both gaining and losing followers led investors to make more frequent, riskier […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/16/university-of-florida-chasing-followers-makes-crypto-traders-perform-worse-on-social-investment-sites/

ProPublica: The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram: Inside a Global Online Hate Network. “The Terrorgram story is part of a much larger 21st century phenomenon. Over the past two decades, massive social networks like X, Facebook and Telegram have emerged as a powerful force for both good and evil. The ability to connect with like-minded strangers helped fuel uprisings like the Arab Spring and […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/16/the-rise-and-fall-of-terrorgram-inside-a-global-online-hate-network-propublica/

"The Terrorgram story is part of a much larger 21st century phenomenon. Over the past two decades, massive social networks like X, Facebook and Telegram have emerged as a powerful force for both good and evil. The ability to connect with like-minded strangers helped fuel uprisings like the Arab Spring and Iran’s pro-democracy movements. But it has also aided extremists, including brutal jihadist organizations like the Islamic State group and white supremacists around the world.

Telegram, which is massively popular outside of the U.S., boasted an array of features that appealed to Humber and her fellow Terrorgammers. They could send encrypted direct messages, start big chat groups and create public channels to broadcast their messages. In the span of five years, they grew Terrorgram from a handful of accounts into a community with hundreds of chats and channels focused on recruiting would-be terrorists, sharing grisly videos and trading expertise on everything from assassination techniques to the best ways to sabotage water systems and electrical transmission lines. On one of her many accounts, Humber posted step-by-step instructions for making pipe bombs and synthesizing HMTD, a potent explosive.

Humber went by a series of usernames but was eventually publicly exposed by a group of California activists. ProPublica and FRONTLINE reviewed chat logs — some provided by the Australian anti-facist research organization The White Rose Society — court records and Humber’s other digital accounts to independently confirm her identity."

https://www.propublica.org/article/rise-and-fall-terrorgram-inside-global-online-hate-network-frontline-telegram

Lifehacker: ‘Redact’ Can Delete Your Posts From 28 Different Social Networks. “From security and privacy concerns to good old-fashioned cringe, there are all kinds of reasons you might want to delete your old social media posts. And there are plenty of tools for the job out there. The problem: most tend to focus on one or two social media networks. Redact, however, is a paid tool with support […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/15/lifehacker-redact-can-delete-your-posts-from-28-different-social-networks/