The man who invented the internet thinks so. The internet recently celebrated its 28 th birthday, but instead of celebrating, Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, voiced apprehension and concern. He outlines several major issues that could threaten democracy, and are preventing his creation from fulfilling its “true potential as a tool which serves all of humanity.” Topping the list is the loss of control over our personal data, the spread of misinformation, and lack of transparency in political advertising. More and more we are getting our news from social media sites and search engines. These sites constantly collect our personal data and us it to create the algorithms that decide what to show us. This is problematic for several reasons says Berners-Lee: “The net result is that these sites show us content they think we’ll click on – meaning that misinformation, or ‘fake news’, which is surprising, shocking, or designed to appeal to our biases can s...
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