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World Wide Web Inventor Worries About The Spread Of Disinformation

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.

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