Connectivity has become in a few years the unsurpassable horizon of all sociability. But its main operators, and particularly Facebook, have shown neither the willingness nor the ability to guide their services according to the exchanges most favorable to the enrichment of interpersonal relationships. The global strategy of the major digital media groups is indifferent to the effects of their location in many societies where the circulation of rumors has deleterious effects. From Kenya to Brazil and from Burma to the United States, we see the challenge of avoiding digital outbursts during election campaigns or political crises that social networks exacerbate rather than temperate.