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World Wide Web Inventor Worries About The Spread Of Disinformation

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Tim Berners-Lee at the CSAIL research laboratory at MIT. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Tim Berners-Lee at the CSAIL research laboratory at MIT. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Sir Tim Berners-Lee (@timberners_lee) is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989. Here & Now's Meghna Chakrabarti talks with him about his concern that his invention is being used to spread disinformation, and his ideas about how to address the problem.

This segment aired on April 14, 2017.

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