

Woman Charged With Insulting Macron on Facebook
She didn’t think she had committed any crime in referring to the French president as “a piece of filth” on Facebook. French authorities thought otherwise.
She didn’t think she had committed any crime in referring to the French president as “a piece of filth” on Facebook. French authorities thought otherwise.
The decision by regulators will prevent Facebook from transferring user data from the EU to America and may potentially force the U.S. to conclude a data protection agreement with Brussels.
The company has three months to comply, but Meta has announced its intention to appeal both on the merits and the fines. In its defence, Zuckerberg’s company argues that there is not enough “regulatory certainty” about data protection.
Discussions about COVID-19, vaccine efficacy, racial issues, withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and involvement in Ukraine were targeted.
The Irish Data Protection Commission took the unprecedented decision to block all data transfers between Europe and the United States.
One of the key elements of the DSA is the additional requirements for VLOPs. The likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon will have to conduct an annual risk assessment analysis; failure to comply will be punishable by hefty fines.
Facebook gives itself the luxury of offering its “two minutes of hate” to its subscribers, telling them, in its great wisdom, which enemies are allowed.
Shaping public opinion is very hard without social media—and it is made worse when one is in conflict with social media. And because of such tendencies, which tend to dominate on the big platforms, public opinion eventually morphs into one single mold or mindset. It is ‘groupthink’ par excellence.
As services like social media platforms become indispensable to the ordinary operations of businesses, we face the prospect of a future in which lawmakers are dictated to by foreign companies.
In her brilliant essay, Anne-Sophie Chazaud, a French journalist and columnist, dismantles the systemic character of the censures we are subjected to today.