Is the internet broken?

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Around 75% of the world’s population is online and – in many ways – this makes all our lives better. But faced with a barrage of ads, misinformation, AI slop, toxicity and doom-scrolling, it can feel like the internet is kind of… broken.

What happened? And where are we headed next?

Featuring interviews with: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Hatelab director Matthew Williams, author and activist Cory Doctorow and author and co-founder of Logging Off Club Adele Zeynep Walton. Big thanks to students at the University of Cardiff.

  • Made by BBC Ideas in partnership with UKRI, external

  • Using AI to tackle online hate, external

  • Watch the The Tech Billionaire Takeover on BBC iPlayer

  • Find out more about Logging Off Club, external

Film by Daniel Nils Roberts

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