Learn to code. Is the internet re-writing history? 30 September 2011Last updated at 05:31 By Catrin Nye BBC Asian Network Pupils in London and Liverpool air their views to Demos senior researcher Jamie Bartlett Osama Bin Laden is not dead; 9/11 was an inside job; and police were slow to tackle this summer's rioters as an excuse to lock up a whole raft of young black men. Conspiracy theories like these are nothing new; opposing views to the official line given by authorities are in fact crucial in exposing deceptions.
However, independent think tank Demos says that young people do not know how to navigate this information when it appears on the Internet. "We have something like a Wild West on the internet," says Jamie Bartlett, senior researcher at Demos. "There's a huge amount of very trustworthy, academic, good bits of journalism [on the internet], more than ever before, which is extremely liberating. But at the same time, equal proportions of distortions, propaganda, lies, mistruths, half-truths and all sorts of rubbish. 'Trust' The internet at 40 | Technology.
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