Tim Berners-Lee: We need social networks where bad things happen less.

The father of the world wide web talks about its first 30 years, the rise of the toxic internet – and whether Facebook needs to be broken up.

Zoom being Zoom, Tim Berners-Lee’s name appears in my browser window about 20 seconds before his audio and video feed kick in – and for a brief moment, the prospect of talking online to the inventor of the world wide web seems so full of symbolism and significance that it threatens to take my breath away.