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Aurélie Jean: “Frances Haugen launches her NGO, okay, but when will there be a real social network?”

2022-09-29T10:18:33.830Z


FIGAROVOX/CHRONICLE - The former Facebook employee announced on September 22 the launch of an organization whose mission will be to clean up social networks. Our columnist looks back on previous initiatives taken in this direction and pleads for the creation of a new tool that...


Aurélie Jean is a doctor of science and an entrepreneur.

She has notably published

On the other side of the Machine.

Voyage of a Scientist to the Land of Algorithms

(2019) and

Do Algorithms Make the Law?

(2022), published by L'Observatoire.

A year after exposing the bad practices of the company Meta - formerly Facebook - by disclosing internal documents, whistleblower Frances Haugen started on September 22 her non-governmental organization (NGO) called

Beyond the screen

, or

Beyond of the screen

, in French.

Its objective is clear and noble: to provide simple and concrete solutions to users so that they regain control of social networks.

We can only rejoice at this news, which will make it possible to raise individual and collective awareness on the delicate subject of the harmful effects of these networks, while advancing practical responses.

But at the risk of upsetting the optimists of which I am a part, a piece is missing from the solution…

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Source: lefigaro

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