'The web had failed instead of served humanity': Tim Berners-Lee was crushed by Russia using Facebook to meddle in the US election

Die Welt

• World wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee said he was "devastated" by recent abuses of the web, in an interview with Vanity Fair.
• He is working on a new platform, named Solid, to re-decentralise the internet and take power away from monopolies like Google and Facebook.
• He still has hope that the internet can become a something that serves humanity well.

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who in 1989 invented the worldwide web, has spoken to Vanity Fair about seeing his invention twisted into something that's bad for humanity.

"I was devastated," Berners-Lee told Vanity Fair's Katrina Brooker about recent internet scandals, such as Russian interference in the US election and Cambridge Analytica harvesting the data of 87 million Facebook users.

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