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How can we stop the spread of misleading, sometimes dangerous content while maintaining an internet with freedom of expression at its core? Misinformation expert Claire Wardle explores the new challenges of our polluted online environment and maps out a plan to transform the internet into a place of trust — with the help everyday users. “Together, let’s rebuild our information commons,” she says.
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gone fishin'
November 16, 2019 at 11:02 am
my dog’s name is internet. He trusts me
Sokhal Saab
November 16, 2019 at 12:32 pm
i m ready
UCLAJediKnight
November 16, 2019 at 3:36 pm
Why is she wearing a black karate outfit?
Lofty Hume
November 18, 2019 at 7:03 pm
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Topher
November 16, 2019 at 5:50 pm
TED – also hosting ideas NOT worth spreading –again.
Mimi and Tino Art Journey
November 16, 2019 at 9:15 pm
Internet is just a medium for any kind of information. Misleading information can be very easy to categorized where it’s coming from–common sense. Be wary of the people who uses the internet as a weapon to destroy your integrity. I’m talking about hackers, cyberbullies, stalkers, and people who redirect contents to your internet traffic, are the ones end users should be vigilant. Some of these people might be considered criminals, but some are the very people who works in telecommunications and IT, uses their expertise to gain their own personal motives
Jane St
November 16, 2019 at 9:18 pm
Oh stop! And shut up. You are in the conspiracy!!!!!!! Don’t decide who I want to listen to. Just stop it
Jane St
November 16, 2019 at 9:19 pm
You are demonizing anyone who doesn’t think like you
Carl is not impressed
November 16, 2019 at 11:37 pm
aka: “Only the stuff i like should be allowed”
George Ockham
November 17, 2019 at 12:42 am
Humans don’t care about facts.
Keith
November 17, 2019 at 2:03 am
TED: are you running out of people that have great idea’s?
Mitch McQuinn
November 17, 2019 at 2:18 am
This lady is either very naive, or very sinister.
Abir Ahmed
November 17, 2019 at 5:03 am
Why she is in so rush? Information should be presented well so that people can feel and relate to the talk
Canyon F
November 17, 2019 at 10:03 am
Freedom is slavery
Civisme Secret
November 17, 2019 at 3:28 pm
war is peace
Mystery Yoghurt
November 17, 2019 at 10:41 am
Truth.
Kongolox
November 17, 2019 at 12:02 pm
“Freedom of speech ends where hatred and disregard for human dignity begins” Irmela Mensah-Schramm.
Full freedom of speech is creating a fertile ground for all evil.. while No freedom of speech is also a fertile ground for all evil…
The best solution is to find and middle ground between full and none.
Second School
November 17, 2019 at 2:00 pm
I sometimes put my phone away and stay under the covers, instead of enjoying life all the time. Thanks 🙂
CEO RecDecLec
November 17, 2019 at 4:25 pm
Huh. I wonder what a dislike button is
ggghhhcvc
November 17, 2019 at 7:17 pm
Why would someone want an anonymous place like the internet to be a place of trust?
Prensa Amarillista
November 17, 2019 at 8:08 pm
I will take dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery any day.
Jay Walker
November 17, 2019 at 8:38 pm
Or you can stop being a pleb and do your own research. If you’re getting yourself views from memes and Twiiter posts then disinformation is the least of your worries.
Toujours Actifs
November 17, 2019 at 10:08 pm
Good ✅✅✅
João Batista
November 17, 2019 at 11:36 pm
Here’s a solution that has been working for a long time: “don’t trust everything you see on the internet”. The woman suggests fact checking as a way to prevent misinformation, but it has a very dangerous side to it. You can twist things by showing some facts and hiding others. There’s also the fact that history can be rewritten if a lie is repeated long enough. It’s much better to let people do their own research instead, no risk of censorship or some centralized power saying what we should or should not trust.
Jay G
November 18, 2019 at 1:32 pm
Wikipedia itself has significant “truth” issues. Let free speech be free. Don’t like what you’ve heard, turn the channel or head to another page. I’d much rather give fools a platform to further highlight what a fool they are than squash free speech.
Aviri Char
November 18, 2019 at 2:02 pm
Yes, this — partly. Good/great idea. End conclusion that it needs a f2f conference to solve it, don’t think that’s supported. Those already exist, in every related field, and many that are, yes, connecting the dots, between the siloes. The wikipedia tack was the right idea. Use the medium itself to produce that global conferencing, not tied to legacy brick-and-mortar obsolete venues that only those with extra cash/time/energy left over can actually make it to. Yes, have TED, and etc. X1000, physically located conferences. But use the especially increasing broadband-as-the-norm, and all the modes that don’t even need that like Wikipedia used for decades now, plus the videoconferencing (G Hangouts, Skype, Facetime, and whatever myriad others), to do the trust-encyclopedia (aka: actual digital community, for the contemporary context as it emergently exists, and aimed toward the future clearly extrapolatable therefrom). In other words, it’s education and economy and society and civics and philosophy and all the age-old solutions, simply recast in this new human crowd cloud form.
Lofty Hume
November 18, 2019 at 7:02 pm
The internet is not the problem. The problem is capitalism.
Seize the means of production.
Oh, and North Korea is the True Korea.