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Pas un poisson d'avril: le Conseil d'Etat annule le blocage de TikTok en Nouvelle-Calédonie décidé en mai 2024 mais autorise le gouvernement actuel et ceux à venir à bloquer les réseaux sociaux au nom de"la théorie des circonstances exceptionnelles", c'est-à-dire sans une loi et en marge de l'état d'urgence. Une décision inquiétante pour nos libertés conseil-etat.fr/actualites/en-

Conseil d'ÉtatEn cas de circonstances exceptionnelles, le Gouvernement peut interrompre provisoirement l’accès à un réseau social, mais sous conditions - Conseil d'ÉtatSaisi pour se prononcer sur la légalité du blocage de TikTok en Nouvelle-Calédonie en mai 2024, le Conseil d’État précise aujourd’hui les conditions dans lesquelles le Premier ministre peut interrompre provisoirement l’accès à un réseau social. Il juge qu’en cas de circonstances exceptionnelles, une telle interruption peut être légale mais à trois conditions : qu’elle soit indispensable pour faire face à des événements d’une particulière gravité, qu’aucun moyen technique ne permette de prendre immédiatement des mesures alternatives moins attentatoires aux droits et libertés, et que l’interruption soit prise pour une durée limitée nécessaire à la recherche et la mise en place de ces mesures alternatives. En l’espèce, le Conseil d’État juge que la décision du Premier ministre d’interrompre l’accès à TikTok en Nouvelle-Calédonie en mai 2024 ne respectait pas l’ensemble de ces conditions.

Critical Thinking: The Other National Deficit

My wife bought me this t-shirt for my birthday several years ago, perhaps just before I retired from a career leading a team of researchers who conducted administrative policy studies at a large public university. Toward the end of my career, the university participated in a national test of college learning outcomes called the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA). Ideally, the CLA assesses the knowledge and skills of entering freshmen and then reassessed their knowledge and skills four years later to measure the educational value added in a true pre-post test. But, because we were in a hurry for results that could be published on a public dashboard to be used in a re-accreditation visit, we instead tested samples of entering freshmen and graduating seniors who had similar high school percentile ranks and SAT scores. Results showed the critical thinking skills of our graduating seniors, compared to entering freshmen, showed slightly less improvement than the national average for graduating seniors at other universities. University leaders were concerned about this finding and were discussing ways to improve at the time I retired. (1/8)

#CriticalThinking #Education #HigherEducation #Academia #Information
#Misinformation #Disinformation #News #Journalism #SocialMedia #Internet #AprilFoolsDay

"Apenas 0,21% dos vídeos encontrados tem alguma forma de monetização. A média de visualizações de um vídeo no Youtube é algo como 41 views. 74% dos vídeos não têm nenhum comentário e 89% não têm nenhum like. A duração média dos vídeos é de 64 segundos, sendo que um terço dos vídeos têm menos de 34 segundos. Em outras palavras, o Youtube é um oceano de vídeos nunca vistos.

O inglês é a língua de apenas 28% dos vídeos, seguido pelo hindu (11%), espanhol (8%), português (7%), russo (6,5%), árabe (6%) e assim por diante.

É curioso que todos esses dados só sejam acessíveis a partir de um projeto de pesquisa longo e complexo. O próprio Google, dono da plataforma, não revela estatísticas. Aliás, há sempre um desejo de manter a imagem do Youtube como algo pouco lembrado quando comparado a outras redes sociais. Outra distorção enorme.

O site é de longe a rede social mais popular nos EUA, sendo usado por 83% dos adultos e 93% dos adolescentes. É o segundo site mais visitado do planeta, perdendo só para o próprio Google. Há cerca de 15 bilhões de vídeos na plataforma. O Youtube é o gigante discreto. Lembra o provérbio chinês 深藏不露 (shēn cáng bù lù) que prescreve esconder e não revelar seu verdadeiro poder."

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Folha de S.Paulo · Opinião - Ronaldo Lemos: O YouTube real é visto apenas por robôsAleatoriedade é importante, pois espelha a realidade digital, enquanto o algoritmo a domina e a condiciona
#Youtube#Bots#Video

Trump's 'idiot' national security aide under fire for hosting other sensitive Signal group chats

> White House national security advisor #MikeWaltz set up group chats beyond the one that featured a freewheeling discussion of U.S. military strikes on the #Houthis in #Yemen, according to a new report.

> President #DonaldTrump has agreed that Waltz was the initial cause of the stunning breach
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1 #signal #atlantic #security #socialmedia

New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Under Governor Greg Abbott's multi-billion dollar border security bonanza, Operation Lone Star, the Rio Grande no longer holds back law enforcement efforts. Today's digital border reaches across Texas and beyond. texasobserver.org/texas-dps-su

This story is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.

A #TV show called 'Prove It!' where people who parrot #ConspiracyTheories and #JunkScience on #SocialMedia are prodded to repeat their claims and show their proof for those claims (if any) in front of the camera.

After which real scientists and historians are brought on to explain objective reality and, if possible, demonstrate visually why the conspiracy theorists and science deniers are full of shit.

Like 'Mythbusters' on steroids, but aimed at busting online idiots.