A matter of trust

The world is falling apart, says Jon Honeyball, and we can’t just stick a pin in it.

OPINION | ONE MORE THING Remember the promise of an open, free and trustable internet that we nerds enjoyed in the nineties and naughties? Today, that dream seems not only distant but impossibly innocent. “Even if Apple, Samsung and the rest jump aboard, there’s one huge issue: persuading social media companies to use this tagging within their apps, to show the authenticity of content.” Much of the blame can be laid at the truly spectacular decade that we are currently enduring, starting with The Pandemic Must Not Be Named. Then the humanitarian disaster of Ukraine. And finally, just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, along comes the Middle East. I could rant for hours about the cesspit that X/Twitter has become. When I joined almost 15 years ago,…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, Xmas 2023

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