It’s time for a zero-trust approach to “news”, argues the very real Jon Honeyball

It was a watershed moment. I’m not too sure what brought it on – maybe the rather nice gin and tonic I was enjoying in Virgin Upper Class on my flight to Los Angeles en route to CES? But I’ve drunk many gin and tonics and they’ve never had this effect before. Yet there, undeniably, it was. As real as the bubbles surrounding the slice of lemon, the realisation that I couldn’t trust most anything on the internet any more. This might seem like a trivial matter. A “doh!” moment that’s obvious to many. But having been around in the online world since well before the internet existed in its current form, I have always felt an underlying bedrock of trust. That trust has gone. It’s not just the rise…

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