Influencers in the Assembly. “We arrived at an important moment,” said Deputy Arthur Deport, president of Tiktok’s psychological effects on minors, a week ago. And in fact, after having audition more than 80 people, it is now the last straight line.
As part of this work, eight influential people will be interviewed in the National Assembly. Specifically, four content creators will be heard representing the virtuous side of the Tiktok and four more controversial camaragraphs.
Opaque and Disinformation Algorithm
This Tuesday, June 3 is Hugo Decrypt, one of the main sources of information for the youngest, which opens the ball. In your social networks, you share daily news, with, rarely, long formats.
“I came to the National Assembly to bring my gaze to Tiktok in the context of this commission,” Hugo Deciphers told Tech & Co. “The question of the mental health of young people on social networks is a real issue,” he confirms.
About the program of this audience? The lower part of the application algorithm, remuneration mechanics, how (either) report on networks or misinformation and moderation on the platform.
And the creator, followed by 7.1 million subscribers in Tiktok, is categorical: the algorithm of the short video platform remains opaque, even for the creators of content itself. “It is a black box,” confirms Hugo Travers (the real name of Hugo Decrypte, a note of the editor) to the deputies of the commission. “Tiktok is based on the relevance of the content in front of an audience,” he observes. “With my team, we try to understand, we try things. (…) But we have the feeling that the algorithm highlights the content seen for a while and until possible.”
With an advantage: a person who has just created his account can, overnight, win millions of opinions. “It is interesting for the public, but it can cause a lot of risk,” he observes. Therefore, the platform can highlight the dangerous content, if you look particularly, with a very young platform. With the risk, therefore, to include Internet users in an avalanche of homogeneous and repetitive content, sometimes very harmful to mental health. Or to highlight false information.
“There is a very clear issue of false information risk on social networks,” warns the cameraman. “In particular, the risk that people, either with a political or personal enrichment objective, automate the dissemination of certain false information.”
Defend the “right to information”
The content creator has observed several accounts that take the codes of the media or creators to transmit false news. “They take a mixture of past statements and combine them with the wrong context to give an appearance of truthfulness,” he adds. Some do not hesitate to resume Hugo’s voice decipators to promote false information, or to start over the old multimedia videos, sometimes several months later.
“In general, a video of the reconfines has been broadcast in January. She made millions of visits,” said the cameraman. “We had to specify in comment that was not recent.”
In addition to the virality of content, algorithm moderation policies are also particularly vague. “We have no specific rules. We know that some subjects, considered more sensitive by Tiktok, will not be presented. There are keywords, such as cigarettes, which can be automatically informed by algorithm and lead to a deletion or invisibility of content,” it goes back to Hugo Decipias.
A great difficulty when the young man tries to inform about Tiktok. Therefore, the word “cigarettes” can lead to content elimination. During the lives during the manifestation against pension reform, smoke smoke resulted in a suppression of the direct.
“We understand that there is a moderation problem (…) but on our side, it is complicated. It can quickly raise a problem of right to information,” he insists. “There is no political censorship. We have been able to deal with conflicts in the world or subjects linked in China to the Uigures. But as soon as there are sensitive or violent issues, we have the feeling that automatic moderation is applied.”
“Allegate to a broader theme”
In spite of everything, Hugo Decrypt is not necessarily favorable for the labeling of certain media on platforms. “I am quite reluctant to classify content creators. I find it difficult to know what criteria based for certification and which would decide. There are risks of drift.”
The same observation on the prohibition of social networks to children under 15. “I don’t feel very comfortable with the idea,” admits the cameraman, admitting to having some doubts.
“I have the feeling that I would move away from a broader issue. The problem of mental health and misinformation is not just young,” he recalls. “I don’t know if it is technically possible. And even if tomorrow we find a system that works, I wonder if there is no risk that people go to other platforms.”
In fact, this measure presents many obstacles. To date, there is no completely satisfactory solution to Verify the age of Internet users in a simple and effectively It has not been found. In parallel, the government cannot impose its rules without the posterior current of the European Commission. In fact, France can only regulate platforms installed in France or not have a central office in the European Union. In this context, it is impossible to force Tiktok, installed in Dublin.
Mr. Chat, the scientific popularizer and the teacher, and the great speech were also interviewed by the agents of the Tiktok Research Commission in the National Assembly. If the first recognizes that Tiktok “stimulates the curiists of the students,” the teacher still points out several negative effects, such as “lack of empathy” or “sleep disorders.”
However, it will be necessary to wait until June 10 to see ADS CONTROLDER AD LAURENTthe couple of TV Julien and Manon Tanti as well as him Snapchat Nasdas Star Be understood by the commission of research on the psychological effects of Tiktok on minors.
Source: BFM TV
