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Qu’a-t-on à apprendre des réseaux sociaux chinois ?
▻https://www.zdnet.fr/blogs/social-media-club/smc-focus-qu-a-t-on-a-apprendre-des-reseaux-sociaux-chinois-39886459.htm

En Chine, les réseaux sociaux se sont développés avec des mécanismes radicalement différents de l’occident. Les spécialistes surveillent aujourd’hui ces évolutions de très près, autant pour essayer de pénétrer le marché chinois que pour essayer d’en tirer certaines leçons. En Chine, les réseaux sociaux se sont développés avec des mécanismes parfois radicalement différents de l’occident. Les spécialistes surveillent aujourd’hui ces évolutions de très près, autant pour essayer de pénétrer le marché chinois que (...)

#Alibaba #Google #Sina_Corp #Instagram #WhatsApp #WeChat #Alibaba.com #Amazon #Facebook #Paypal #Skype #Uber #algorithme #smartphone #SocialNetwork #domination #marketing #web #publicité (...)

##publicité ##TikTok

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Ce matin, l’Ambassadeur d’Italie au Niger, S.E.M. #Marco_Prencipe, a présidé, la cérémonie d’ouverture de l’Atelier de lancement des projets #SCCAN et #SINA mis en œuvre par @OIM_Niger et financés à hauteur de 3 millions EUR par le Gouvernement italien.

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ping @karine4 @isskein

Ajouté à la métaliste :
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» Reports that 18 Palestinians, 4 Israelis Killed on Sunday
May 6, 2019 12:47 AM - IMEMC News
▻https://imemc.org/article/reports-that-18-palestinians-4-israelis-killed-on-sunday

Palestinian and Israeli media sources are reporting that up to 18 Palestinians and 4 Israelis have been killed on Sunday, as Israeli forces escalated their bombardment of the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian resistance groups fired more rockets into Israel.
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According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Abdel Rahim Mustafa Taha Al-Madhoun and Hani Hamdan Abu Sha’ar , 37, were killed by Israeli missiles in the northern Gaza Strip.

Four civilians, including a pregnant woman and her two children, were killed in an overnight raid on the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. They were identified as: Abdullah Abdul Rahim Al Madhoun, 22, Fadi Ragheb Badran, 31, and Shahida Amani Al-Madhoun (33 years old), who was killed along with her unborn baby – she was nine months pregnant.

In addition to the three killed, eight others were reportedly injured in the Israeli airstrike, which targeted Al-Faraj Sheikh Zayed in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.

Two Palestinian civilians were reportedly killed in the shelling of Rafah. They were identified as Musa Muammar, 24, and Ali Abdul Jawad, 51 years old . Three people were seriously injured in that same airstrike, which targeted a residential building in the city of Rafah.

The Israeli airforce reportedly targeted the home of the Director General of the Internal Security Forces in Gaza, Major General Tawfiq Abu Naim in Nuseirat central Gaza Strip.

Two apartments were destroyed in Tower No. 10 in the Sheikh Zayed Towers in the northern Gaza Strip.

The Ministry of Health also announced that two citizens were martyred in a bombardment targeting agricultural land behind Ibrahim al-Maqadma Mosque in Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Two Palestinians were killed in that airstrike, they were identified as Mohammad Abdul Nabi Abu Armaneh, 30, and Mahmoud Samir Abu Armanah, 27.

Both were taken to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in Deir Al-Balah .

Israeli airstrikes destroyed the internal security building inside the governor’s palace west of Gaza City, following the destruction of another house belonging to the Mashtah family in central Gaza and a house belonging to the Abu Qamar family in al-Sina’a Street in Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in the west of Gaza City. (...)

#Palestine_assassinée

23 Palestinians, Including Infant & 12-Year Old, Killed by Israeli Airstrikes
May 6, 2019 12:47 AM IMEMC News

Palestinians killed (confirmed) :
May 5, 2019

Maria Ahmad al-Ghazali, 4 months
Ahmad Ramadan al-Ghazali, 31 (Maria’s father)
Eman Abdullah Mousa Usrof al-Ghazali, 30 (Maria’s mother)
Abdul-Rahim Mustafa Taha al-Madhoun, 61
Abdul-Rahman Talal Atiyya Abu al-Jedian, 12
Eyad Abdullah al-Sharihi, 34
Mohammad Abdul Nabi Abu Armaneh, 30
Mahmoud Samir Abu Armanah, 27
Mousa Moammar, 24
Ali Ahmad Abdul-Jawad, 51
Hani Hamdan Abu Sha’ar, 37 (Rafah)
Abdullah Abdul Rahim al-Madhoun, 22
Fadi Ragheb Badran, 31
Amani al-Madhoun (Abu al-Omarein), 33/Ayman al-Madhoun(her fetus), northern Gaza
Abdullah Nofal Abu al-Ata, 21
Bilal Mohammad al-Banna, 23
Hamed al-Khodari, 34
Mahmoud Sobhi Issa, 26
Fawzi Abdul-Halim Bawadi, 24

#blockchain Technology Application Summit 2018— Changing the World to Create the Future
▻https://hackernoon.com/blockchain-technology-application-summit-2018-changing-the-world-to-crea

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The Silicon Valley of China recently held its main annual technology conference and this year the focus was Blockchain.Some of the key speakers including LoveBlock CEO Raffael KrauseThe event was huge, including sponsors such as Sina — the Chinese equivalent of Twitter and the financial website Meirijinrong which is partnered with the likes of Huawei and Baidu.As a result, projects from across China and beyond flew into Chengdu for a weekend full of discussion and networking on all things blockchain.There was an immense variety of projects on display from the revolutionary forward thinkers to the downright wacky and weird.BitPig — Blockchain Project based on… Pigs?Bit猪 (zhū) or known as BitPig in English was the standout candidate for strangest Blockchain offering. Claiming to revolutionize the (...)

#crypto #blockchain-technology #singapore #blockchain-summit

Malaysian government using fake news law to crush freedom of speech - CNET
▻https://www.cnet.com/news/malaysian-government-passing-fake-news-laws

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The bill makes not only creating fake news illegal, but also sharing it. A Malaysian citizen could be punished, then, for simply retweeting fake news. If found guilty, Malaysians can be sentenced to prison for up to six years and fined up to 500,000 Malaysian ringgit (which roughly converts to $130,000). Plus, it’s not a domestic law — it applies to those outside the country who are responsible for fake news.

“This legislation is problematic on so many different levels,” David Kaye, clinical professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, said to CNET. “The definition of fake news is so broad it seems like the government could decide anything could be fake news. On top of that, it has these extraordinarily harsh penalties.”

Case study: A scandal erupted in 2015 around Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak when the Wall Street Journal reported that around $700 million in funds were transferred from a state-owned company to his personal bank accounts. Over 10 sites were taken down for reporting on this, according to EFF.

With the new fake news law, journalists who wrote those stories and citizens who shared them online could face legal punishment and even jail time. That includes international journalists.

“[The new law] applies to non-Malaysian citizens internationally if ’fake news’ published overseas involves Malaysian citizens,” said a Khairil Yusof, team coordinator at Sinar Project, an organization that defends digital rights of citizens in Malaysia. “For example the WSJ journalists that broke the story [that alleged Prime Minister Razak’s corruption] face the possibility of being jailed and fined when visiting Malaysia.”

#Fake_news #Malaisie

The Follower Factory - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/100000005704904.app.html

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All these accounts belong to customers of an obscure American company named Devumi that has collected millions of dollars in a shadowy global marketplace for social media fraud. Devumi sells Twitter followers and retweets to celebrities, businesses and anyone who wants to appear more popular or exert influence online. Drawing on an estimated stock of at least 3.5 million automated accounts, each sold many times over, the company has provided customers with more than 200 million Twitter followers, a New York Times investigation found.

The accounts that most resemble real people, like Ms. Rychly, reveal a kind of large-scale social identity theft. At least 55,000 of the accounts use the names, profile pictures, hometowns and other personal details of real Twitter users, including minors, according to a Times data analysis.
Jessica Rychly, whose social identity was stolen by a Twitter bot when she was in high school.

“I don’t want my picture connected to the account, nor my name,” Ms. Rychly, now 19, said. “I can’t believe that someone would even pay for it. It is just horrible.”

Intéressant cette reprise/acceptation du concept d’industrie de l’influence

These accounts are counterfeit coins in the booming economy of online influence, reaching into virtually any industry where a mass audience — or the illusion of it — can be monetized. Fake accounts, deployed by governments, criminals and entrepreneurs, now infest social media networks. By some calculations, as many as 48 million of Twitter’s reported active users — nearly 15 percent — are automated accounts designed to simulate real people, though the company claims that number is far lower.

In November, Facebook disclosed to investors that it had at least twice as many fake users as it previously estimated, indicating that up to 60 million automated accounts may roam the world’s largest social media platform. These fake accounts, known as bots, can help sway advertising audiences and reshape political debates. They can defraud businesses and ruin reputations. Yet their creation and sale fall into a legal gray zone.

J’aime beaucoup « Economie de l’influence »

The Influence Economy

Last year, three billion people logged on to social media networks like Facebook, WhatsApp and China’s Sina Weibo. The world’s collective yearning for connection has not only reshaped the Fortune 500 and upended the advertising industry but also created a new status marker: the number of people who follow, like or “friend” you. For some entertainers and entrepreneurs, this virtual status is a real-world currency. Follower counts on social networks help determine who will hire them, how much they are paid for bookings or endorsements, even how potential customers evaluate their businesses or products.

High follower counts are also critical for so-called influencers, a budding market of amateur tastemakers and YouTube stars where advertisers now lavish billions of dollars a year on sponsorship deals. The more people influencers reach, the more money they make. According to data collected by Captiv8, a company that connects influencers to brands, an influencer with 100,000 followers might earn an average of $2,000 for a promotional tweet, while an influencer with a million followers might earn $20,000.

Influencers need not be well known to rake in endorsement money. According to a recent profile in the British tabloid The Sun, two young siblings, Arabella and Jaadin Daho, earn a combined $100,000 a year as influencers, working with brands such as Amazon, Disney, Louis Vuitton and Nintendo. Arabella, who is 14, tweets under the name Amazing Arabella.

But her Twitter account — and her brother’s — are boosted by thousands of retweets purchased by their mother and manager, Shadia Daho, according to Devumi records. Ms. Daho did not respond to repeated attempts to reach her by email and through a public relations firm.

“I don’t know why they’d take my identity — I’m a 20-year-old college student,” Mr. Dodd said. “I’m not well known.” But even unknown, Mr. Dodd’s social identity has value in the influence economy. At prices posted in December, Devumi was selling high-quality followers for under two cents each. Sold to about 2,000 customers — the rough number that many Devumi bot accounts follow — his social identity could bring Devumi around $30.

#Industrie_influence #Twitter #Followers

Grande initiative : A Muppet with autism to be welcomed soon on Sesame Street.
▻http://nbc4i.com/2017/03/20/a-muppet-with-autism-to-be-welcomed-soon-on-sesame-street
#autisme #muppet #sesame_street

Ils le font exprès, non ?
▻http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-france-defense-experts-see-parallels-to-israel

Just Friday morning, security officials in France’s Jewish community were informed of the very real possibility of an impending large terrorist attack in the country, according to Jonathan-Simon Sellem, a freelance journalist and a representative of French citizens in Israel.

#Israel #Israël

Using Social Media to Detect Outdoor Air Pollution and Monitor Air Quality Index (AQI): A Geo-Targeted Spatiotemporal Analysis Framework with Sina Weibo (Chinese Twitter)

▻http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141185
▻http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141185.g008

Outdoor air pollution is a serious problem in many developing countries today. This study focuses on monitoring the dynamic changes of air quality effectively in large cities by analyzing the spatiotemporal trends in geo-targeted social media messages with comprehensive big data filtering procedures. We introduce a new social media analytic framework to (1) investigate the relationship between air pollution topics posted in Sina Weibo (Chinese Twitter) and the daily Air Quality Index (AQI) published by China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection; and (2) monitor the dynamics of air quality index by using social media messages. Correlation analysis was used to compare the connections between discussion trends in social media messages and the temporal changes in the AQI during 2012. We categorized relevant messages into three types, retweets, mobile app messages, and original individual messages finding that original individual messages had the highest correlation to the Air Quality Index. Based on this correlation analysis, individual messages were used to monitor the AQI in 2013. Our study indicates that the filtered social media messages are strongly correlated to the AQI and can be used to monitor the air quality dynamics to some extent.

#chine #pollution #cartographie

China Further Tightens Grip on the #Internet - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/world/asia/china-clamps-down-still-harder-on-internet-access.html

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after a number of #VPN companies, including StrongVPN and Golden Frog, complained that the Chinese government had disrupted their services with unprecedented sophistication, a senior official for the first time acknowledged its hand in the attacks and implicitly promised more of the same.

The move to disable some of the most widely used V.P.N.s has provoked a torrent of outrage among video artists, entrepreneurs and professors who complain that in its quest for so-called cybersovereignty — Beijing’s euphemism for online filtering — the Communist Party is stifling the innovation and productivity needed to revive the Chinese economy at a time of slowing growth.

#chine #surveillance #censure

En Chine ça commence…
China ‘beefs up’ social media rules by forcing people to use real-name registration | South China Morning Post
▻http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1679072/china-beefs-social-media-rules-forcing-people-use-real-name-registration

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forcing people to register with their real names if they want to use the mainland’s most popular Twitter-like service, Sina Weibo, internet forums, and other websites.

The nation’s Cyberspace Administration did not reveal details about how the plan would be carried out in today’s announcement. (...)

The real-name protocol means that even if a user is able to choose an internet nickname, he or she would need to register their real names with the website administrator.

ailleurs ça continue plus ou moins…
Facebook Changes Real-Name Policy After Uproar From Drag Queens - WSJ
▻http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-changes-real-name-policy-after-uproar-from-drag-queens-1412223040

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Mr. Cox said in his post that the drag-queen controversy can be traced to a single Facebook user who reported several hundred drag queens to Facebook, claiming the accounts were fake. Mr. Cox said 99% of accounts flagged in that way by other users are “bad actors doing bad things: impersonation, bullying, trolling, domestic violence, scams, hate speech and more.”

#real_name #rézosocios #facebook #chine via @mb

CHINE • Une campagne antipornographie pour "purifier le web” | Courrier international
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2014/04/29/une-campagne-antipornographie-pour-purifier-le-web

Les autorités chinoises viennent de lancer une campagne contre la pornographie sur la Toile. Dans leur ligne de mire, le plus grand portail d’information du pays, Sina, qui est menacé de perdre sa licence de publication. Une mesure qui aurait valeur d’exemple.

#Chine #pornographie #internet #censure

How #Ibn_Sina resolved complicated scientific problems
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2013/10/how-ibn-sina-resolved-complicated.html

La mosquée et le...vin comme sources d’inspiration.

This is from a biography of the greatest mind, Ibn Sina, recorded by his dutiful student (from Ibn Al-Qifti, Tarikh Al-Hukama’, edited by Julius Lippert, (Leipzig, 1903), p. 415: “Whenever I used to perplex over a matter or a middle solution in syllogism eluded me, I would resort to the mosque, to pray and implore the all-creator until the hidden was revealed and the difficult eased. I would then return home at night and set a lamp before me and engage in reading and writing. And whenever sleep or fatigue came near overcoming me, I would resort to a glass of wine until my strength was fully restored.”

PS Ibn Sina justified his wine drinking by saying that it was religiously prohibited for the fool, but intellectually permitted for the intelligent.

A Chinese Web censor snaps, goes on public rant
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/01/09/a-chinese-web-censor-snaps-goes-on-public-rant-against-censorship

We need [Sina] Weibo to deliver voices. But a hand is manipulating behind us. Someone is doomed to be sacrifice in this game.

#censure #chine #weibo #internet

#China Bans the Word ‘#Egypt’: Social Media Grows Up | Death and Taxes
►http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/48757/china-bans-the-word-egypt-social-media-grows-up

The monolithic government of China has taken notice. News broke this weekend that China has censored the word “Egypt” from its social media and micro-blogging sites, as Slate writes, “in the hope that the country’s citizens won’t get any big ideas.” The country bans both Faceook and Twitter, and instead allows alternate sites over which it can maintain control, like Sina.com and Sohu.com.

#censure #internet