Tournesol: Towards a Collaborative Governance of the Web by Lê Nguyên Hoang

COVID disinformation, the Capitol riots and the Ukraine invasion stress the critical role of online propagandas on national security and global peace. Unfortunately, today, the web is ruled by a handful of actors which have been shown to either pay too little attention to the dangerous externalities of their activities, or to actively collaborate with dictators to facilitate their control over their populations. In this talk, after stressing the need for alternatives, I will present Tournesol, a proposal for a collaborative governance of information prioritzation on the web. I will also discuss some of numerous technical challenges that must be addressed to make Tournesol secure and trustworthy. LÊ NGUYÊN HOANG After graduating from the École Polytechnique in Paris, Lê Nguyên Hoang received a PhD from Polytechnique Montreal and did a postdoctoral research at MIT. He then became a computer science researcher and a science communicator at the EPFL. He also runs the YouTube channel Science4All, with 225k+ subscribers, and co-authored several books. In 2021, he co-founded the nonprofit Tournesol association, which manages a platform for collaborative content recommendation. In 2022, he co-founded Calicarpa, a machine learning consulting company. ------------------------------------------------------------ INTRO * visuals & editing by @Mercator * music : Avocado by Ephixa