
Berners-Lee and Baron Cohen: Strong D-media abuse opinions
Sir Tim Berners-Lee attacks Tories over misinformation:
Sir Tim Berners-Lee described the renaming of a Tory Twitter account as a fact checking body as "impersonation".
"That was really brazen," he told the BBC. "It was unbelievable they would do that."
During a live TV leaders' debate on Tuesday the Tory press office account @CCHQ was rebranded "factcheckuk".
The renaming remained for the duration of the hour-long debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn. The Conservatives have said "no one will have been fooled" by the move.
But Sir Tim said the renaming "was impersonation. Don't do that. Don't trust people who do that." https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50539795
Sacha Baron Cohen: 'greatest propaganda machine in history'
The full speech of Baron Cohen:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/22/sacha-baron-cohen-facebook-propaganda
More from Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Berners-Lee launches global action plan: Contract for the Web
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/50517962
and warns of a looming 'digital dystopia'
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/25/tech/berners-lee-web-safer-plan-scli-intl/index.html