“Oops, I just realized I was live”. Faced with digital, even the big bosses of Silicon Valley can experience moments of weakness. This is particularly the case by Jack Dorsey, emblematic co-founder and patron from Twitter. This May 12 around 6.30 p.m. (French time), he launched a live video on Periscope, the Twitter delivery tool. Thinking of addressing the company’s employees, Jack Dorsey very vaguely mentioned future work on the platform, before realizing that the videoconference was broadcast to 4.5 million subscribers to his account, and accessible to all internet users.
An assumed blunder
According to the words of the CEO of Twitter, the hasty launch of the live video (dubbed “Chat w jack & friends 2”) seems to be linked to a previous manipulation error having ejected the participants from a previous videoconference, this time private. In all, it will take about forty seconds – during which no sensitive information has been revealed – to Jack Dorsey to realize his error, and to stop the retransmission.
Handsome player, he left the streak accessible to all. “We have a weekly internal periscope and oops!” he immediately commented. In August 2019, Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account had been hacked for about fifteen minutes, displaying racist messages and praising Adolf Hitler.
The subject of hate content has returned to the heart of the news this May 12: four anti-racist associations have assigned Twitter France in urgent proceedings before the Paris court, demanding the appointment of a judicial expert responsible for making all the transparency on the policy of moderation of the social network.
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