Sir Tim Berners-Lee co-created and unvailed a new World Wide Web Foundation that will address a new system that would give websites a label for trustworthiness once they had been proved reliable sources. He told BBC News that he was increasingly worried about the way the web has been used to spread disinformation.
“On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable,” he said. “A sort of conspiracy theory of sorts and which you can imagine spreading to thousands of people and being deeply damaging.”
Source: Warning sounded on web’s future
I wonder how much of teacher blogs contribute, likely unintentionally, to disinformation about learning and schooling.
A learning analyst could conduct an interesting and useful study on this topic.
I wonder who might have interest in setting up a group to formulate guidelines for authenticating education blog information? Maybe something like FactCheck about learning, teaching, schooling and related publications?