Mozillaâs 2018 Internet Health Report Rings Alarm Bells>
Extreme Tech – Joel Hruska
Into this proud moment in history comes Mozilla, with its latest report on the overall health of the internet. Itâs a 53-page document that touches on a huge range of topics, from cybersecurity and privacy to the cost of online access and net neutrality. And â spoiler alert â most of these topics arenât doing all that well. Mozillaâs report is designed to focus on five issues: privacy and security, openness, digital inclusion, web literacy, and decentralization. In many cases, these segments show profound challenges and/or negative outcomes. Mozilla spends a significant amount of time discussing the ways that Russia has created sophisticated operations to sow dissent within a number of countries. This tends to be a hot topic in the US, but again, Iâd advise people to decouple their feelings about the 2016 election and look at the larger picture. A recent study of how news propagates on Twitter found fake news outperforming the real thing regardless of topic, trends, or distribution patterns. Lies reached 1,500 people six times faster than the truth did, the biggest stories to go viral were all blatantly untrue, and humans spread lies much more often than bots do. Is There Any Good News. Yes. HTTPS is now used by default in 81 of the Top 100 web destinations, more people get online every year, the global cost of getting online continues to fall, and worldwide support for net neutrality has continued to rise.
Link: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/267226-mozillas-internet-health-report-rings-alarm-bells?source=Internet