Le Monde

Did the creature end up escaping its creator?

Reading several hundred internal Facebook documents in any case suggests that the social network is no longer able to effectively fight against disinformation and violence on the Internet.

These "Facebook Files", transmitted by an American parliamentary source to a media consortium, including Le Monde, were revealed thanks to a whistleblower, former engineer of the group, Frances Haugen.

They lift the veil on the dark side of the company founded by Mark Zuckerberg, accused of privileging profit to the detriment of its social and democratic responsibility.

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These documents,

, bring (in particular) new elements on the role played by Facebook on January 6, 2021, when the Capitol was stormed by supporters of Donald Trump. Like the police forces mobilized that day to control the demonstrators, the social network has proved incapable of dealing with the deluge of hatred and disinformation that has spread on the Internet. (…) Facebook allowed untruths to spread which contributed to the chain of events. Some documents also point to the laxity of the platform to moderate calls for violence and political manipulation in high-risk countries, such as India, Afghanistan or Burma, which have been the scene of violent clashes. .

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with its 3 billion regular users, Facebook is clearly no longer able to meet its responsibilities, which go beyond those of a simple content host.

(...) The social network must quickly be the subject of more monitoring on the functioning of its algorithms, it must let users choose their preferences rather than entrust them to a process driven by artificial intelligence and above all, we must provide regulators of the means and skills necessary for the creature to come back under control.

Europe in full recovery of the epidemic 

Little by little, the map of Europe is colored red. The number of Covid-19 cases recorded each day has increased from week to week in almost all countries on the continent. The increase is sometimes contained and starts from a fairly low level, as in France, but the trend is general: + 37% in Italy, + 50% in Germany and the Netherlands ... The two reasons most often mentioned are 'arrival of the cold season, conducive to contamination, because we meet more in closed places, and the decline in the effectiveness of vaccines over the months.

The Covid-19, a boomerang that keeps coming back to us?

There is a very slight rebound, but for the moment we cannot speak of a fifth wave ", reassured the government spokesman, Gabriel Attal yesterday, specifying all the same that it was necessary "be very carrefully".

After eight consecutive weeks of decline,

Liberation, the incidence rate increased by 10% the week of October 10 to 17, according to Public Health France.

As a result, the country has exceeded the alert threshold of 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

The number of new daily contaminations has now risen above the symbolic bar of 5,000 cases for three days

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20% of beds are closed in public hospitals for lack of staff. (…) The stress of the pandemic, added to often deplorable working conditions and unattractive wages, has further discouraged caregivers. (…) And nothing, or very little, will solve the problem in the short term. We will have to wait in particular for the end of the numerus clausus to begin to produce its effects, which will not happen for about ten years. This quota, which restricted the number of medical students until 2020, has scandalously blocked the road for many aspiring caregivers who would be very useful today.

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nothing is going well, and the quality of the care begins to be affected.

It would be enough for the Covid-19 epidemic to start again for the hospital to collapse