Pascal Blanchard, a historian specializing in colonization, anticipates that the debate on identity will mark the 2027 French presidential campaign. Both the far right and the radical left use this issue to mobilize their bases, reflecting deep fractures in French society. The concept of identity has become a key political axis for defining parties and attracting voters.
Algorithms and censorship: technology as an identity mirror ðŸ§
Digital platforms amplify these divisions. Their algorithms prioritize emotional content about identity, creating information bubbles that polarize the debate. Automated moderation tools, such as those from Facebook or X, often fail to distinguish between legitimate criticism and hate speech. This forces developers to adjust language models for local political contexts, a technical challenge that reflects the country's social complexity.
The algorithm that doesn't know if you're left-wing or right-wing 🤖
While politicians debate identity, software engineers grapple with a more mundane problem: ensuring their artificial intelligence doesn't confuse a debate on secularism with a croissant recipe. The machine, which classifies everything into binary labels, still doesn't understand that in France, one can be a republican and complain about the supermarket baguette at the same time. A technical mess that not even Blanchard could decipher.