talk about the dangerous road that the internet has taken, how to fight back and what the future, vint cerft evangelist at google but people know me as one of the co—inventors of the internet. first of all, the good part, is the world wide web emerged there was this an enormous desire and the general population that had access to the internet to share information that they knew and the world wide web was a tremendous facilitating means by which this could be done. then, in the 2000s, we start to see the arrival of social networking. but those platforms have been essentially subverted by some people who wake to use them as a way of injecting misinformation and disinformation in the system, for either put a coat or pecuniary or other nefarious, political. we have a tough problem ahead of us. which is to help people distinguish good quality information from bad quality, we have a problem in front of us. people hope that this can be done algorithmically, i am noticing about that. algorithmic detection of misinformation and disinformation is not so easy. the expectation that artificial intellige

immeasurably more smaller cables connect those to individual computers — an interconnected network that vint cerfert kahn named the internet. it's important to understand that the internet is not the world wide web. the web is a great invention. it is the way that data, web pages, services, and documents are arranged, accessed, and addressed. but all of that sits on top of the hardware that is the internet, which allows many, many networks to talk to each other in a really clever way. so, say you want to watch a cute video of a cat. well, your request to see the video shoots out of your device... ..along regional networks, and at some point races through telehouse north. and off across the globe to where the video is stored, and this is where it gets really clever. see, sending the whole video in one go, down one route, will likely mean that it will get stuck in traffic and take ages. so the video is torn apart, broken up, split into little packets, and each one makes its own way back down different routes. and when they start arriving back at your device, they're juggled into the right order. an

my name is vint cerf. am vice president and chief internet evangelist at google, but some people know me as one of the co—inventors of the internet. first of all, the good part. as the world wide web emerged, there was this enormous desire in the general population that had access to the internet to share information that they knew. and the world wide web was a tremendous facilitating means by which this could be done. then in the 20005, we start to see the arrival of social networking. but those platforms have been essentially subverted by some people who like to use them as a way of injecting misinformation and disinformation into the system, for either political or pecuniary or other nefarious purposes. so we have a tough problem ahead of us, which is to try and help people distinguish good quality information from bad quality information. some people hope that this could be done algorithmically. i am not as sanguine about that. algorithmic detection of misinformation and disinformation is not so easy.

my name is vint cerf.google, but some people know me as one of the co—inventors of the internet. first of all, the good part. as the world wide web emerged, there was this enormous desire in the general population that had access to the internet to share information that they knew. and the world wide web was a tremendous facilitating means by which this could be done. then in the 2000s, we start to see the arrival of social networking. but those platforms have been essentially subverted by some people who like to use them as a way of injecting misinformation and disinformation into the system, for either political or pecuniary or other nefarious purposes. so we have a tough problem ahead of us, which is to try and help people distinguish good quality information from bad quality information. some people hope that this could be done algorithmically. i am not as sanguine about that. algorithmic detection of misinformation and disinformation is not so easy. the expectation that artificial intelligence and mac

an interconnected network that vint cerf and robert kahn named the internet.eb is a great invention — it's the way that data, webpages, services and documents are arranged, accessed and addressed, but all of that sits on top of the hardware that is the internet. which allows many, many networks to talk to each other in a really clever way. so, say you want to watch a cute video of a cat.

and in half an hour click will mark the 50th aniversay of the internet by speaking to vint cerf, whoo—invented it. us media are reporting the military has conducted an operation against the leader of the so called islamic state group. the white house says president trump will make a statement later today. there are unconfirmed reports he will announce the group's leader abu bakr al—baghdadi was killed during a us led raid yesterday. the is leader has been described as the world's most wanted man. in 2011 the us officially designated him a "terrorist" and offered a reward of ten million dollars for information leading to his capture or death — his death has been wrongly reported on several occasions. he emerged in 2010 as the leader of al-qaeda in iraq, one of the groups that merged with is, and rose to prominence during the attempted merger with the al—nusra front in syria. mark lowen reports. a night—time strike on the highest of targets. this unverified footage is said to show us jets attacking the syrian hideout of abu bakr al—baghdadi, the leader of the islamic state group. ameri

my name is vint cerf.atforms have been essentially subverted by some people who like to use them as a way of injecting this information —— of injecting miinformation and disinformation into the system, for either political or other nefarious purposes. so we have a tough problem ahead of us, which is to try and help people distinguish good quality information from bad quality information. some people hope that this could be done algorithmically. i am not as sanguine about that. algorithmic detection of misinformation and disinformation is not so easy. the expectation that artificial intelligence and machine learning and computer programming will somehow solve all these is an expectation which can‘t be fulfilled. some people will say "well, the country should have rules — enforceable rules — that suppress misinformation and disinformation. just make all that bad stuff go away." that particular practice has a very, dark abusive side. it is called "censorship," which is intended to suppress access to informati

my name is vint cerf, i am vice president and chief evangelist at google but people know me as one ofinternet to share information that they knew, and the world wide web was a tremendous facilitating means by which this could be done. then in the 20005, we start to see the arrival of social networking. but those platforms have been essentially subverted by some people who like to use them as a way of injecting this information and disinformation into the system for either political or other nefarious purposes. so we have a tough problem ahead of us which is to try and help people distinguish good quality information from bad quality information. some people hope that this could be done algorithmically, i am not as sanguine about that. algorithmic detection, misinformation and disinformation is not so easy. the expectation that artificial intelligence and machine learning and computer programming will somehow solve all these problems is an expectation which can't be fulfilled. some people will say the country should have rules and enforceable rules that suppress misinformation and disi