The Mozilla Foundation has launched yet another project, which aims to chase misinformation on the internet or our fake news. The institution is reportedly looking for partners and awaits ideas from its service users about how to do it better.
It was named the Mozilla Information Trust Initiative (MITI), and the head is Katharina Borchert. In one blog publishing said in a few words that the spread of so-called "false news" is not beneficial for the internet:
"The impact of misinformation on our society is one of the most divisive and important issues of our time. "Misinformation depletes transparency and conflicts, eliminates involvement and trust, and loses the public benefit of the web."
In short: It makes the Internet less healthy. "As a result, the Internet has lost its ability to dominate democratic societies."
But for now, the Mozilla Foundation doesn't have a concrete plan and will conduct disinformation investigations later this year based on data browsing users gathered during the 2016 US presidential election.
The foundation will also set up an "e-learning curriculum", work with media organizations and use Pocket, Focus and Coral products in its fight against fake news.
Encouraging Mozilla to enter the race, Borchert said the misinformation was against "almost every doctrine" in the Manifesto of Mozilla.
"Mozilla has a long history of putting the community and its principles first and dedicating resources to pressing issues - the Browser Firefox it's just an example," he said. "Mozilla is committed to building more tolerance than hate and building the technology that can protect people and the web."
In March, the Tim Berners-Lee called on all major internet companies to combat "fake news" on their respective platforms.
Last week, the Mozilla Foundation sent the Send, a free tool for sharing files which are deleted from the server once a single download is complete.
The upload supports files up to 1GB that are deleted after the first download or after 24 hours.
On Wednesday, the Mozilla Foundation released it new Firefox 55, the first browser for computers that supports WebVR, but is currently only supported by Windows.
