*Aurélie Jean is a doctor of science and entrepreneur. She notably published “
Do algorithms make the law
?
» (L'Observatoire, 2022) and co-authored "
Resistance 2050
" (L'Observatoire, 2023).
The story could have started better.
Against a backdrop of misogyny, the idea of Facebook originated from an online game designed twenty years ago by Mark Zuckerberg, then a student at Harvard, and intended to divide, through a vote of male students, their female counterparts into based solely on their physique.
Which contrasts with what the boss of Meta wants, as he so often repeats: to change the world
“
for good
”
by connecting humanity.
To paraphrase the American sociologist Sherry Turkle in her book
Alone Together
, we must recognize that even if Facebook has successfully reduced the degree of separation between two individuals in the world (from 6 to 3), we are paradoxically very alone... each one on our side of the screen.
This is not about drawing a portrait…
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