The Mozilla foundation has launched yet another project, which aims to hunt down misinformation on the internet or what we know as fake news. The foundation is reportedly looking for partners and is waiting for ideas from them users of his services on how best to do so.
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 does not have a specific plan and will conduct disinformation inquiries later in the year based on user browsing data gathered during the US presidential election of 2016.
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 devoting resources to urgent issues - the Firefox browser is just one example," he said. "Mozilla is committed to building more tolerance than hatred and building technology that can protect people and the web."
In March, the Tim Berners-Lee called on all major internet companies to fight "fake news" in their respective platforms their.
Last weekteam, the Mozilla Foundation sent the Send, a free tool for sharing files which are deleted from the server once a single download is complete.
Shipping supports archives size up to 1GB which are deleted after the first download is completed 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.
