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Kiedy Facebook jest twoim światem - Newsletter Artura Kurasińskiego
Do opisania roli mediów elektronicznych w dzisiejszym świecie na podstawie wydarzeń w Mjanma (dawna Birma) nosiłem się od dawna. Za swoje wakacyjne lenistowo i prokastynację zapłaciłem cenę - uprzedził mnie błyskotliwy jak zawsze John Olivier. Trudno. Mam nadzieję, że to co napiszę będzie w najgorszym razie dobrym uzupełnieniem.
W 2013 roku w Mjanmie dostęp do internetu miało mniej niż 900 tysięcy mieszkańców . W 2017 roku już aż 18 mln mieszkańców Mjanmy cieszyło się dostępem do globalnej sieci - z czego aż 16 milionów miało zarejestrowane konta na portalu Marka Zuckerberga.
Facebook stał się tak popularny, że słowo "internet" zaczęto wymiennie używać z nazwą "Facebook". Portal społecznościowy stał się de facto jedną, wielką tablicą dyskusyjną dla wszystkich internautów. Internet demokratyzuje społeczności poprzez ich usieciowienie i umożliwienie wymiany informacji. Prawda?
W 2017 roku przez kraj przetoczyła się ogromna fala czystek etnicznych - w kraju gdzie większość obywateli wyznaje buddyzm (84%) na celownik wzięto muzułmanów z ludu Rohindża. Napięcia na tle religijnym nie są w tym kraju nowością i są notowane od 1947 roku. Jednak w 2012 roku wybuchły z nową intensywnością. Szczególną rolę w budowaniu nienawiści zaczął odgrywać Internet. Tak Mariusz Kania dla "Dużego Formatu" opisywał o wydarzenia z 2013 roku w Miktili:
Para z wioski Pyun Kauk przyjechała tego dnia do miasta, by sprzedać złotą spinkę do włosów. Okazało się, że była wykonana z imitacji. Doszło do bójki pomiędzy buddyjskim właścicielem spinki a pracownikami sklepu, muzułmanami. Wiadomości szybko znalazły się w internecie, ale ich opis różnił się od faktów: babcia z wnuczką chciały sprzedać złotą spinkę, babcia zginęła, a wnuczka trafiła do szpitala. Zamieszki wywołane fałszywą informacją doprowadziły do śmierci 43 osób, głównie muzułmanów, którzy ratowali się ucieczką z miasta.
W 2017 roku wydarzenia nabrały tempa. Szacuje się, że w wyniku powszechnej i systematycznej przemoc wobec Rohidżów zabito ponad 10 tysięcy przedstawicieli tej mniejszości religijnej a około 700 tysięcy z nich zmuszono do ucieczki do Bangladeszu.
Facebook zalany został falą hejtu, fake news oraz informacjami nawołującymi do mordowania muzułmanów. Te informacje dzięki Facebookowi i telefonom komórkowym (na których lokalni operatorzy preinstalują ten serwis społecznościowy) były multiplikowane i podawne dalej wywołując zamieszki i śmierć.
Przedstawiciele ONZ twierdzą, że ataki na mniejszość muzułmańską były dobrze skoordynowane, zaplanowane a co gorsza podparte kampanią w mediach społecznościowych - głównie na najbardziej znanym w Birmie serwisie internetowym czyli Facebooku.
Kiedy w kwietniu Mark Zuckerberg tłumaczył się przed Amerykańskim Senatem z błędów i zaniedbań związanych z fake newsami i algorytmami podsycającymi dystrybucję hejtu w swoim serwisie zobowiązał się do poprawy działania Facebooka w Birmie poprzez zatrudnienie "kilkunastu dodatkowych moderatorów".
Czy to dużo? W Niemczech gdzie niedawno zaczęło obowiązywać nowe prawo dotyczące kar za nie usunięcie "hate speech" ten sam Facebook zatrudnił 1200 niemieckojęzycznych moderatorów.
Po kilku miesiącach media postanowiły sprawdzić jak Markowi Zuckerbergowi idzie naprawianie świata. Okazało się, że pomimo wysiłków moderatorów na birmańskim Facebooku bez trudu znaleziono ponad 1000 przykładów hate speech i rasizm.
Nie wiem czy Mark Zuckerberg dobrze sypia i ile czasu dziennie spędza na realnych działaniach mających na celu przywrócenie równowagi. Mam szczerą nadzieję, że mu się to uda.
Bo kraj podzielony na dwa plemiona używające internetu a w szczególności mediów społecznościowych do czerpania wiedzy na temat drugiej strony - zalewany botami, skrzywiony algorytmami i fałszywymi informacjami (a czasami, nazwyczajniej ludzką głupotą) jest skazany na zagładę.
Prawda?
Artur Kurasiński
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Apple’s new watch sounds like a win for anyone interested in their heart health. It will notify wearers of a slow or irregular heart rhythm, and it can take a basic electrocardiogram (ECG), a…
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U.S. hikes tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods, omits Apple gear | VentureBeat — venturebeat.com
The U.S. formally announced the imposition of tariffs on an additional $200 billion in Chinese goods, but left out a category that would have harmed Apple.
Heads up, Disney:
’s unprecedented success means as much for the future of media as it does for the gaming industry.
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Spotify is now allowing artists to upload their music directly to the streaming service. Here’s what means for you and the music business.
The idea of "zombie scrolling syndrome" has legs, after all. From worms to wasps, nature has figured out mind control—in ways that bring to mind social media.
The on-demand economy gives fewer opportunities for people to interact with those outside their class—creating impermeable inequality.
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Facebook announces pilot to monitor hacking threats against U.S. political candidates and staff | VentureBeat — venturebeat.com
Facebook's new program is aimed at protecting political campaign staff when someone attempts to hack another member of their team.
To help autonomous vehicles solve inclement conditions, WaveSense will sell a sensor that can see below the ground.
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IKEA designs future autonomous cars that work as hotels, stores, and meeting rooms - MIT Technology Review — www.technologyreview.com
The furniture store’s research lab has dreamed up seven ways we might use autonomous vehicles if we don’t actually have to focus on driving.
With locations in New York, San Francisco, and L.A., Parsley Health is on a mission to bring “functional medicine” to the prescription-popping masses.
Lyft crossed a major milestone when it completed its 1 billionth trip. It took the company six years to reach that goal, which is around the same amount of time it took Uber to reach a billion rides.
HBO and Netflix went head to head for the most Emmy wins, with the premium cabler and the streaming giant tying for first place.
The European Central bank has no plan to issue a digital currency because the underlying technology is still fragile and the use of physical cash still high in the euro zone, the ECB president said on Friday.US
The pattern is familiar. Computer geeks develop technology that threatens to overturn established markets and habits. Regulators then scramble to understand and tame the beast. This is what is…
The EU is ramping up pressure on Facebook to better spell out to consumers how their data is being used or face sanctions in several countries.
While record sales are down, everyone continues to stream music, allowing streaming to account for the vast majority of revenue when it comes to music sales.
Telltale Games appear to be closing their doors. Reports are coming in from multiple sources that 90% of the staff have been let go without severance.
Facebook’s $22 billion WhatsApp purchase
made Brian Acton one of the richest people in America. But his idealism clashed with Mark Zuckerberg’s financial juggernaut. For the first time, Acton explains why he left.
The founders of Instagram quit, and the founders of WhatsApp regret selling, and Facebook’s greed is at the root of it all.
Weź udział w atrakcjach z gospodarzami w Twojej okolicy. Czekają różne ciekawe wycieczki i wydarzenia Airbnb.
Introducing Oculus Quest, Our First 6DOF All-in-One VR System, Launching Spring 2019 | Oculus — www.oculus.com
We’re excited to usher in the next era of VR gaming with the introduction of Oculus Quest, our first all-in-one VR gaming system. Oculus Quest will launch in Spring 2019 for $399 USD.
In a court filing, Qualcomm has unveiled explosive charges against Apple for stealing "vast swaths" of its confidential information and trade secrets to improve the performance of chip sets provided by Intel.
Twitter’s new policy will ban posts that "dehumanize anyone based on membership in an identifiable group." Twitter executives Del Harvey and Vijaya Gadde described the proposed rule as part of an ongoing effort to promote healthy conversations on Twitter and limit real-world harms stemming from discourse on the platform.
Eric Schmidt does not believe the internet will splinter, but does see us heading toward a 'bifurcated internet, with China leading one part.
Jane Mayer on a meticulous analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign that makes a powerful case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.
Why Instagram’s founders are resigning: independence from Facebook weakened – TechCrunch — techcrunch.com
Facebook promised Instagram autonomy, but reduced it over time leading to today’s bombshell revelation. Eight years after launching Instagram and six years after selling it to Facebook, Instagram co-founders CEO Kevin Systrom and CTO Mike Krieger are leaving the company, according to The New York Times. The founders apparently did not give a reason for their departure when they informed the company today that they’re resigning and that they’ll depart in the next few weeks.
Walmart has been working with IBM on a food safety blockchain solution and today it announced it’s requiring that all suppliers of leafy green vegetable for Sam’s and Walmart upload their data to the blockchain by September 2019 .
So far, a new generation of media barons has mostly helped news organizations thrive. Could that change?
Bitcoin could be money's Uber moment. But history shows that it's a long shot. Other innovations have better chances of success.
Juuls, Glossier, and thrift stores are big for Gen Z.
Facebook’s attempts to fight fake news seem to be working. (Twitter’s? Not so much.) » Nieman Journalism Lab — www.niemanlab.org
Plus: How YouTubers spread far-right beliefs (don't just blame algorithms), and another cry for less both-sides journalism.
'The people’s yogi': how Adriene Mishler became a YouTube phenomenon | Life and style | The Guardian
With 4 million subscribers and hundreds of thousands more watching free weekly videos, Yoga with Adriene is a social media sensation. What makes her fans so devoted?
AncestryDNA has partnered with Spotify to generate custom music playlists based on a user’s genetic heritage. The collaboration has yielded more than 10,000 sign-ups for a custom playlist within the...
A government-backed study says the country's internet users are worried about missing out on online knowledge and are willing to pay for educational podcasts.
Facebook plans to finally unveil its Portal video chat device for the home next week, Cheddar has learned. The device will function similarly to an Amazon Echo Show with social features and come in two screen sizes, according to people familiar the matter. The wide-angle video camera will use artificial intelligence to recognize people in the frame and follow them as they move throughout a room.
Facebook starts publicly testing its dating service with users in Colombia today.
WayRay has raised $80 million from Porsche, Hyundai, Alibaba, and others to bring holographic augmented reality displays to cars and buildings.
Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen have built Wattpad, one of the world’s largest social storytelling sites. Now they’re using data to mine hundreds of millions of stories to find Hollywood’s next big hit.
This blog is mainly reserved for cryptography, and I try to avoid filling it with random "someone is wrong on the Internet" posts. After all, that's what Twitter is for! But from time to time something bothers me enough that I have to make an exception. Today I wanted to write specifically about Google Chrome,…
Generation Z students prefer to learn from YouTube.
Changes in policies have affected ad blockers, antivirus apps, and an anti-distraction tool, but Apple hasn’t spoken publicly about which apps are permitted.
Small, slow and super cheap: China's low-speed electric vehicles, or LSEVs, are bringing the thrill of driving to the masses—and hampering the government's efforts to develop an upscale EV industry.
Spotify opens the floodgates: artists can now upload tracks direct to the streaming platform for FREE - Music Business Worldwide — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
Spotify has today launched a new feature which will enable independent artists to upload tracks to the service directly – without any requirement for a third-party aggregator or record label.
Switzerland tries to stem blockchain exodus by improving access to banks | Reuters — www.reuters.com
t to maintain its status as a cryptocurrency hub, Switzerland has taken steps to help blockchain companies access the traditional financial system by making it easier for them to open corporate bank accounts.US
lkswagen's Porsche will stop offering diesel versions of its cars, the unit said on Sunday, sharpening its focus on hybrid and battery-powered vehicles instead.US
It's not the first "gig economy" company to try to alter the rules on sharing stock.
Having recently celebrated 3 million online registrations, The Telegraph has now revealed a more unexpected milestone: reaching 3 million teenagers a month on Snapchat.
This evening, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire and founder of Japan’s largest online clothing retailer site Zozotown, will be the first private customer to ride around the Moon on the company’s future massive rocket, the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR).
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Social impact in the age of AI must take on a new dimension: the creation of large numbers of service jobs for displaced workers.
Pay users for their data. Eliminate one-person-one-vote. And let individuals sponsor migrants.
From Serial to Chapo Trap House, podcasts are more popular (and profitable) than ever these days. But with these big and small success stories come several misconceptions.
Future Robo-Taxis Could Charge Themselves and Help Balance the Electric Grid. Wireless startup WiTricity wants cars to power up without human help and feed utilities energy during peak demand.
The long list of new Alexa devices Amazon announced at its hardware event – TechCrunch — techcrunch.com
Everyone’s favorite trillion-dollar retailer hosted a private event today where they continued to exercise their highly strategic approach to hardware, which has them throwing everything at the wall and waiting to see what sticks.
It began, as so many similar stories do, with a series of tweets. On September 4th, a writer at The Outline, a news startup founded in 2016 by Joshua Topolsky, posted that she and several of her colleagues had suddenly been laid off, leaving the site with no staff writers whatsoever.
While Alphabet faces existential challenges, its co-founder is exercising his right to be forgotten.
With advances in gene technology helping to diagnose very rare diseases, has the new era of personalised medicine finally arrived?