Internet to get “Truth Rating”
Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee wants to see a truth rating hit the net in the near future. This comes off the back of the Large Hadron Collider experiment which was rumoured to be able to create black holes and swallow up the universe, a comment that was invented and spread on the net.
“On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable…A sort of conspiracy theory of sorts and which you can imagine spreading to thousands of people and being deeply damaging.”
Berners-Lee believed a rating was needed and that it should be policed by various people and organisations. His comments came at the launch of his new foundation the World Wide Web Foundation, aimed at putting the web all over the globe.
