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Aurélie Jean: "Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram are publishers, not simple hosts"

2022-12-08T10:04:17.541Z


FIGAROVOX/CHRONICLE - Our columnist welcomes European legislation, passed last November and due to come into force in August 2023, aimed at combating online hate. This text finally obliges the giants of the Net to apply a form of transparency, she argues.


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.

This is the most surprising and perhaps - unfortunately - the most exciting meeting with the media and the general public, that our president organized during his stay in the country of Uncle Sam: a one-hour interview with new Twitter owner Elon Musk.

He took the opportunity - rightly - to remind the billionaire engineer entrepreneur of the obligation in the coming months to conform his new company to recent European legislation to fight against lawless areas on the internet.

The opportunity to highlight the paradox among most social networks to defend their status as hosts when in practice they publish - even automatically - the provision of content.

In 2018, Europe…

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Source: lefigaro

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