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News:

• Good curation by DF about a pathological case of Facebook filter bubble:
  • Hyperpartisan facebook pages are publishing false and misleading information at an alarming rate.
  • Christopher Mims on Twitter:

    "I once wrote a column arguing Facebook probably hasn't led to more partisanship. I now think that's completely wrong.
    I now think Facebook is contributing to the decline of western civilization. By helping spread misinformation.
    We replaced civil society with self-selecting, self-reinforcing loops of affinity feeding our brains with social validation of dangerous untruth.
    Our thoughts are inherently a product of our context. Facebook's filter bubble is real and the company's attempts to deny it are feeble."

• [fr/qc] IRIS :
  • L'austérité pour une bonne cause.
  • Le REM : plus avantageux pour la Caisse que pour la population québécoise .
• [fr] Mitterrand amoureux, et un article de l'Obs.
• Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking, via HN.
• Great DNS talk on HN about the DDoS on Dyn (update). Also, Go source code for the Mirai botnet client (HN).
• How the web became unreadable, via HN.