This week in France What are NFTs doing in Emmanuel Macron's campaign? Digital: the main measures of the programs of Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen Presidential: the mid-round debate is also on Twitch Marine Le Pen and public broadcasting, a high-risk privatization Presidential: Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Eric Zemmour, big winners on YouTube and Twitch 3 FIGURES 25 million – this is the user milestone exceeded in France by Snapchat 15.
6 million – that’s the number of viewers watching the debate between the two rounds $10,000 – that’s the value of the first tweet, originally sold for 2.9 million euros CHART OF THE WEEK Infographic: The carbon footprint of our digital activities | StatistaYou can find more infographics on Statista OUR BEST READS / WORTH YOUR TIME / LONG READ Roger-Pol Droit's "philosophy" column: living among intelligent machines How to democratize information for the common good AI language proficiency. Should forex data we trust it? DISRUPTION, DISLOCATION, GLOBALIZATION North Korean Lazarus Hackers Stole €500 Million in Ethereum Large-scale mercenary spyware operation against the Catalans using Pegasus and Candiru .
States Memes have become an unlikely source of revenue to fund the Ukrainian resistance GAFA / BATX Elon Musk, the cowboy billionaire 100 million Indian users now have access to WhatsApp Pay What's Behind Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's First Letter to Shareholders? Facebook 'lacks will' to fight disinformation in Africa Apple employees at New York's Grand Central store take steps to unionize DATA, TRUST, FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, DISINFORMATION Transcript: Barack Obama's Speech on Technology and Democracy www.