Mark Zuckerberg, third man in the 2020 US presidential election?
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on July 6, 2011 at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California.
Paul Sakuma, AP
By: Julien Le Bot Follow |
Steven Jambot Follow |
Simon Decreuze Follow
28 min
In this first episode, we see how Facebook has long been considered a champion of American-style democracy.
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The presidential election is approaching in the United States.
To the fight between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is added the Covid-19 pandemic which has killed more than 220,000 people in the country and put the brake on the economy.
But there is also an actor whose influence in this election would be wrong to underestimate: Facebook.
Lately, all eyes have been on Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg.
The question arises as to whether the social network is sufficiently prepared to face the challenges of the ballot.
In two episodes of about twenty minutes each,
Julien Le Bot
, journalist and producer, author of
Dans la tête by Mark Zuckerberg
(Actes Sud), and
Steven Jambot
, producer of
L'Atelier des Médias
, offer a dive into the heart of the Facebook machine to understand everything that is at stake around this election, for Mark Zuckerberg, for citizens across the Atlantic and for the future of American democracy.
They try to answer a question: Is Mark Zuckerberg the third man in the 2020 US presidential election?
This first episode explains how Facebook has, for a long time, been considered as a champion of American-style democracy, a tool for emancipation (as during the wave of the "Arab Spring"), to the point of becoming a kind of "
Social infrastructure
" of democracies.
The historian
Corentin Sellin
and
Manon Berriche
, researcher at the MediaLab of Sciences Po Paris, contributed in the form of voice notes addressed to
L'Atelier des Médias
.
Mondoblog audio is this week offered by the Guinean blogger Diérétou Diallo who talks about the place of Facebook in politics in her country.
Directed by:
Simon Decreuze
(
L'Atelier des medias
but also the native podcasts of RFI
Afrofuturismes
and
Bas les pattes
)
2nd episode on Sunday, November 1: Facebook, a threat to the presidential election of November 3?
Julien Le Bot and Steven Jambot in studio at RFI, in October 2020 © RFI / Anthony Ravera
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