Social Media and its influence

Améliorer la santé de la conversation”. Voici comment Twitter vante les mérites de sa toute dernière acquisition. Il s’agit de Fabula AI, une start-up basée à Londres spécialisée dans l’analyse approfondie des graphes en utilisant l'apprentissage automatique. Twitter compte s’appuyer sur cette technologie pour améliorer sa lutte contre les infox et le spam notamment en extrayant des signaux à partir des relations et interactions détectées dans le graphe. Un outil qui devrait s’avérer primordial alors que les Etats-Unis s’acheminent vers la campagne pour l’élection présidentielle de 2020. 

L’acquisition de Fabula s’apparente davantage à une recrutement de talents puisque l’équipe va rejoindre le groupe Cortex chez Twitter qui développe les solutions de machine learning pour le réseau social. Michael Bronstein, le cofondateur de la start-up pilotera les travaux sur l’apprentissage profond des graphes. Twitter n’a pas communiqué les détails financiers de l’acquisition de Fabula AI. (Eureka Presse)

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Perhaps it's the advertising. Perhaps it's the politics. Perhaps it's the brutal harassment and paper-thin protections for users. Perhaps it's the Nazis. Whatever your personal reason, you've come to the conclusion that it's finally time to quit Twitter.

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Twitter has long positioned itself as the “global town square” in which the world comes together to have a shared conversation across geographic and cultural boundaries. Such was the early vision of last decade's social platforms, that they would bring us together as a society and overcome the ability of elites to dictate the global conversation. Instead, even as Twitter’s CEO touted his company’s global reach in 2013, the platform’s growth had leveled off and over the half-decade since, Twitter has shrunk almost in half, shed its vaunted geotagged resolution, centralized around an ever-older set of elite accounts and transitioned from a place to hear from the world to a place to retweet from afar. What does this mean for the future of the global town square?

The great dream of social media was that it would give everyone a voice. From heads of state to ordinary citizens, everyone, no matter where they lived, what they looked like, what their background or place in society was, would be equal. Most importantly, these social platforms would be free to publish to and consume and would not preference the wealthy and powerful over the traditionally disenfranchised.

Elites would no longer control the global conversation. We would finally have our long-elusive vision of communicative democracy.

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