A non-profit campaign group set up by Berners-Lee has secured the backing of Facebook and Google for his 'contract for the web.'
outlined his vision
"Never before has the web's power for good been more under threat," Adrian Lovett, CEO of the World Wide Web Foundation, told CNBC in an interview Friday. He added that the rise of hateful content and fake news being propagated online meant something had to change. Other organizations backing the contract include DuckDuckGo, Reddit, GitHub and Reporters Without Borders.
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