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Can we know who accessed the 700,000 leaked antigen tests of French people?
3 FIGURES
1 million – That’s the number of videos containing gambling data uae misinformation that YouTube says it has removed since the start of the pandemic.
A hundred million euros – The CNC’s estimate of investments by foreign platforms in French series in 2021 (compared to 37 million in 2020, before the Smad decree)
YouTube Music Premium Service Has Over 50 Million Subscribers
CHART OF THE WEEK
Infographic: China, the country most addicted to video games | StatistaYou can find more infographics on Statista
OUR BEST READS / WORTH YOUR TIME / LONG READ
The Internet doesn't make people more aggressive, but it does act as a megaphone for those who are already aggressive in real life.
MIT Media Lab: The director of the world's most renowned innovation lab wants to focus on... public policy.
Why the Taliban are also looking to conquer social networks
The mysterious accomplice who “cleans” Facebook for $500 million a year
DISRUPTION, DISLOCATION, GLOBALIZATION
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In the metaverse, will gaming giants become the new big tech?
The #ADayOffTwitch movement aims to hit the livestreaming platform where it hurts
GAFA / BATX
Apple wants to protect everyone's privacy...except its own employees
Google reportedly offered Netflix a break from the usual 30% Play Store commission
Facebook's new steps to reduce the share of politics in its News Feed
Apple Announces First States Signing on to Adopt Driver's Licenses and State IDs in Apple Wallet
DATA, TRUST, FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, DISINFORMATION
Your privacy is the price of Facebook's monopoly, even if you don't use it
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Independent media urges Vladimir Putin to end crackdown on journalists in Russia
Funding fake news: "It's the price to pay", says the founder of the Tipeee platform, which helped produce the film "Hold-up"
Taliban's rapid media censorship
German tabloid Bild, Germany's most widely read newspaper, has launched its own TV channel
Reddit discussion forum kicks out antivax, antimask community
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS
CSA warns CNews against "lack of diversity of points of view expressed" in two Pascal Praud programs
WhatsApp fined €225 million for GDPR violations
Google, Apple targeted by South Korean law that ends app payment monopoly
JOURNALISM
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ProPublica covers pain, death and trauma without losing humanity
STORYTELLING, NEW FORMATS
MIT Open Documentary Lab wants to transform the way facts are told
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ITV continues its 'Drama vs Reality' series with a game inspired by 90s arcades
ENVIRONMENT
NOWU Website Launched
SOCIAL NETWORKS / MESSAGING
Tencent's messaging platform blocks LGBTQ terms
Twitter begins rolling out paid Spaces to some iOS users
The most popular Facebook posts are often plagiarized
TikTok launches option to promote posts like Facebook's 'boost'
TikTok: 46% of survey respondents say they watch content on the platform without getting distracted
STREAMING, OTT, SVOD
Netflix and BBC prepare creative brief to encourage creators with disabilities
Funimation's Acquisition of Crunchyroll Will Change the Game of Anime Streaming
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AUDIO, PODCAST, TERMINALS
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After acquiring Primephonic, Apple Music is preparing an app dedicated to classical music
In South Korea, classical music is shared in virtual worlds
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This Reddit user is pissing people off by proposing to his girlfriend with an NFT
For the 20th anniversary of September 11, 9/11 Day and Epik organize the first fundraising in the form of NFTs in several video games
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CNBC adds augmented reality map of reopening states
ABBA marks its grand return with a virtual concert “ABBA Voyage”
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Should online advertising choose its sites?
Ant & Dec's new TikTok ad traces the history of entertainment
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“Pokémon Go”, the confinement survivor
DrLupo is the latest streamer to switch from Twitch to YouTube Gaming
Audio chat is coming to Roblox
Online gambling: on Twitch, young viewers are crazy about videographers with dubious business
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Zoom has changed the way we see our appearance, so much so that it follows us into reality.
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ES with Kati Bremme & Mathilde Caubel