Would the dice be loaded? Would global information now be controlled by a few planetary industrial groups? The question is raised with each election, with each crisis, in the United States, in France, and elsewhere. Social networks and lobbies have taken control of our brains.
Pavel Durov, CEO and founder of 900-million-user encrypted messenger Telegram, was arrested this Saturday at Le Bourget airport. The 39-year-old Franco-Russian billionaire was arrested by French authorities under a search warrant issued by the French Office for Combating Violence Against Minors.
Under the pretext of preventing all kinds of abuse, are social network algorithms gradually taking control of our ideas and opinions ? Example with Covid-19.
The mission of the Vigilance and Protection against Foreign Digital Interference (Viginum) service is to protect the democratic debate from external intrusions. By better monitoring internal publications?
They live in Barcelona, Berlin or Paris. Every day, influencers broadcast moments of their daily life on social networks with the aim of increasing their number of “followers”. Thousands, even millions of followers who are potential consumers.
