Paul Bouchaud

I don't even have the words ....

Une agence pro-Orbán a mené une campagne numérique occulte pour le RN en France Des contenus ont été diffusés sur le réseau social X en ciblant les internautes sur la base de critères politiques, ce qui est interdit par les réglementations françaises et européennes.

En 2024 et 2025, une agence pro-Orbán a mené une campagne numérique occulte en faveur du Rassemblement national.

Des dizaines de contenus ont été diffusés sur X sur la base d’un ciblage politique (ce qui est interdit), selon des données de l’ONG @aiforensics.org partagées avec @mediapart.fr. 👇

"Another Hungary is Possible" de Laika (artiste hongrois) 2025, dessin sur un mur de Budapest, Orban, habillé en femme (jupe et blazer rose, hauts talons, rouge à lèvres) il porte une cravate aux couleurs trans et tient dans sa main droite un drapeau arc-en-ciel

#BudapestPride

Tout notre soutien aux participants de la #Pride interdite de Budapest ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍

"Another Hungary is Possible" de Laika (artiste hongrois)
2025

Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance

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Vous pouvez aussi juste déposer les fichiers de pub et rien d'autre ! Aussi si vous mettez votre zip, la décompression se fait dans votre navigateur en local pour y extraire les fichiers de pub. [Le code de la page et ce qui est envoyé et disponible en un clic de manière transparente]

Screenshot of the website haveibeentargeted.online displaying the result of the analysis. We observe that the user was served ads based on their inferred similarity with political accounts.

Wanna check if you've been targeted by ads based on sensitive data? Just drop your X portability archive to find out haveibeentargeted.online

Have I been Targeted? Have I Been Targeted? is a tool built by AI Forensics that lets you see whether you have been targeted based on your sensitive characteristics on X

@paulbouchaud.com uncovered some bizarre targeting options on #X that let advertisers do pretty much whatever they want. Want to exclude #LGBT users or target only #Christians? Apparently, it’s possible and done.

Have you been targeted like this?

👉 aiforensics.org/work/sensiti...

...he says to Signal's president

X a permis à des annonceurs de cibler leurs publicités en fonction de critères politiques, une pratique interdite La méthode, proscrite en Europe, sauf à de rares exceptions, par le règlement général sur la protection des données personnelles, reste utilisée, voire encouragée, sur le réseau social d’Elon Musk, ré...

X fiche vos opinions politiques, religion, orientation sexuelle, données de santé, origines... Le niveau de laisser faire juste ahurissant. Il est temps de réagir !

@NetflixFR ran ads excluding users interested in the French far-right party, "FN, Front National, RN"

Similarly, @bp_Deutschland excluded users interested in "trans, transgender, gender transition" from their ads, as well as "al islam, quran, sunni, shiite, shias"

The oil company @TotalEnergies ran over 80 ads shown 86 million times, carefully excluding all users with an interest in Green politicians (Marie Toussaint, Yannick Jadot,...) as well as those interested in "Kosher, Casher, Mahomet"

"Conversation topics" curated by X for advertisers. Among those we find "political affiliation - Rassemblement National" alongside other parties

Through the X Ads repository, mandated by the DSA, we exported the ads run by major companies, and checked their targeting criteria. What we found is concerning:

How X enables major brands to target your most sensitive personal data - from health conditions to political beliefs - check out our new report! aiforensics.org/work/sensiti...

X a permis à des annonceurs de cibler leurs publicités en fonction de critères politiques, une pratique interdite La méthode, proscrite en Europe, sauf rares exceptions, par le règlement général sur la protection des données personnelles, reste utilisée, voire encouragée, sur le réseau social d’Elon Musk, révèle une étude de l’ONG AI Forensics.

X a permis à des annonceurs de cibler leurs publicités en fonction de critères politiques, une pratique interdite

X a permis à des annonceurs de cibler leurs publicités en fonction de critères politiques, une pratique interdite La méthode, proscrite en Europe, sauf rares exceptions, par le règlement général sur la protection des données personnelles, reste utilisée, voire encouragée, sur le réseau social d’Elon Musk, révèle ...

Pratique pour Total qui a financé une campagne de pub invisible aux écolos. Ou encore McDo qui fait sa promo tout en évitant soigneusement les syndicats.

www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...

Chart: Gender critical guide on when to come out as trans Age line along the bottom from 0 - 100. 18 and 25 are highlighted. From 0-25 is labelled: no one this young can know. Social contagion From 18-100 and beyond is labelled: if you didn't come out before now you must not be serious. Transtrender/pervert

Sorry everyone, but these are the rules*

*That cis people made up

J’ai déposé une plainte contre Facebook auprès de l’Arcom hier, pour manquement à ses obligations liées au Digital Services Act (DSA). La raison : une modération aux abonnés absents, impliquant un potentiel risque systémique.

Meta Battles an ‘Epidemic of Scams’ as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook Fake puppies and phony offers of mouthwatering bargains are often seeded by overseas crime networks; employees say company is reluctant to impede its advertising juggernaut

"“The alleged underenforcement of Meta’s monitoring policies cannot give rise to liability,” the co wrote last year in a motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging negligence in removing crypto scams, adding it “does not owe a duty to users” to address fraud on its platforms.

www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fr...

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”

NEW: A secretive surveillance company is building "AI persona" bots for cops intended to gather evidence on people. Personas include "college protesters," "radicalized" divorced moms, children. We have docs that shows how it works and what cops can do with it:

www.404media.co/this-college...

Meta's Failing Ad Moderation: Health Scams Targeting EU Users This report uncovers Meta's systemic failure to moderate health-related scam advertisements. We identified over 46,000 advertisements promoting unapproved drugs and making deceptive health claims that...

Check out our report aiforensics.org/work/meta-he...

Meta's Failing Ad Moderation: Health Scams Targeting EU Users

"This is a highly adversarial space, we are investing a lot in our detection systems..." Meanwhile, our latest report at @aiforensics.org found Meta reviewed, approved, and displayed fake medicine advertisements over 292 million times to EU users since the DSA took effect.

One mother’s win over Meta will change social media for everyone Britons will be able to opt out of targeted advertising after Tanya O’Carroll’s David-and-Goliath battle with Meta

Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...

Ah si.
L’info du jour c’est ça : les travaux de Paul Bouchaud montrent que Meta ne modère pas les publicités politiques (d’où les nombreuses pub de Doppelganger qui sont restées sur Facebook pendant des mois).
Mais par contre ça, ils ont modéré…
Ccl : le modèle économique de Meta c’est caca.

Russian Disinformation Campaigns Eluded Meta’s Efforts to Block Them A new report details how a covert influence operation linked to the Kremlin continued to place ads on Facebook despite U.S. and E.U. prohibitions on doing business with the organization.

By cross-referencing thousands of Doppelgänger advertisements and leaked assets, we document with @checkfirst.network and Reset.Tech the sustained access of the "Social Design Agency" to Meta's advertising ecosystem, despite being under US and EU sanctions. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/b...

Influence by Design: How Meta Accepted Russian Propaganda Payments Despite Sanctions - CheckFirst Check First, in partnership with Reset.tech and AI Forensics, unveils the extent to which Kremlin-linked entity SDA have exploited Meta platforms to disseminate propaganda.

Despite international sanctions, #Meta is accepting payments from Russian propagandists. Our latest report with @aiforensics.org & Reset underscore how Meta has failed to moderate over 8,000 political ads from the Kremlin-linked Social Design Agency (SDA). #SDALeak

YouTube video by PowerfulJRE Joe Rogan Experience #2255 - Mark Zuckerberg

Well there you have it. In his Rogan Interview Zuck argues that the “billions of EU fines” against US companies “basically amount to tariffs”, and “you’d expect the USG to defend its companies” abroad moving forward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k1e...

Pay-to-Play: Meta's Community (double) Standards on Pornographic Ads Exposing Pornographic Ads on Meta Despite Content Moderation Claims

Check out the full report aiforensics.org/work/meta-po...

Analysis | Sexually explicit Facebook ads raise eyebrows in Europe Researchers found thousands of graphic ads that violate Meta’s policies. EU regulators say they’re taking note.

Instagram zealously removes non-cis-male nipples, yet Meta profits from thousands of porn-filled ads on their platforms. In our last report, we documented Meta's double standards in content moderation. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Sur Facebook et Instagram, des milliers de publicités pornographiques non modérées Publié mercredi, un rapport d’AI Forensics documente la présence, sur les réseaux sociaux du groupe Meta, de nombreuses publicités à caractère pornographique. Cette irrégularité met en doute l’efficacité de la modération de ces plateformes grand public.

Sur Facebook et Instagram, des milliers de publicités pornographiques non modérées