The Pew Research Center recently released a report on The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online about prediction about the impact of the internet over the next 10 years.
The Pew Research Center in collaboration with Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center conducted a large survey asking technologists, scholars, practitioners, and strategic thinkers to react to this issue:
"In the next 10 years, will trusted methods emerge to block false narratives and allow the most accurate information to prevail in the overall information ecosystem? Or will the quality and veracity of information online deteriorate due to the spread of unreliable, sometimes even dangerous, socially destabilizing ideas?" 1
The report brings the responses to the public highlighting 5 major themes regarding the environment of the future og online information:
1Pew Research Center, The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online, 19 October 2017.