Tim Berners-Lee often criticises Silicon Valley giants for their impact on the web.
Tim Berners-Lee, the British creator of the World Wide Web, has used its 30th anniversary as an opportunity to take aim at Silicon Valley.
But the British engineer who invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has Silicon Valley in his sights and warned on the web's 30th anniversary of a"downward plunge to a dysfunctional future." "Everyone realized that elections had been manipulated using data they had contributed," he told the BBC."This person got all this data, and he got it under the pretext that he was going to use it for research purposes and he actually used it to manipulate an election."
Berners-Lee added:"I think with a mid-course correction... [we can] stop this downward plunge towards a very dysfunctional future, let's turn around. With a turnaround, a mid-course correction, I am then optimistic again."
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