Debate of the day
Social networks: what freedom of expression?
Fake comments abound on the Internet, whether on travel sites, on blogs, on social networks, on Youtube.
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By: Romain Auzouy
1 min
This is the big question that agitates the networks currently: will the billionaire Elon Musk buy Twitter?
Tuesday was marked by a new twist, the boss of Tesla indicating that the takeover of the social network would not take place without obtaining the guarantee that less than 5% of the accounts on the platform are fake. Positioning of Elon Musk questions.
The latter does not hesitate to present himself as “an extremist of freedom of expression”.
Isn't this likely to lead to abuse?
Where to place the cursor?
What regulation?
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To discuss
it
Dominique Boullier
, university professor in sociology at Sciences-Po Paris and author of
How to get out of the grip of social networks,
Le Passeur editions
Divina Frau-Meigs
, professor of information and communication sciences and media sociologist at Sorbonne Nouvelle University
David Chavalarias
, mathematician, director of CNRS Research, author of the book
Toxic data, how networks manipulate our opinions
, Flammarion editions.
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