Terry Pratchett warned Bill Gates about fake news back in the ’90s

The Microsoft man wasn’t having any of Pratchett warned Bill Gates of how fake news would affect the internet, an unearthed interview has revealed

Posting on Twitter, journalist Marc Burrows – who is penning a book on Pratchett’s life – shared an image of a 1996 magazine, where the novelist spoke to Microsoft’s head honcho. Captioning his find, Burrows said that the fantasy writer had “accurately predicted how the internet would propagate and legitimise fake news”, adding that “Gates didn’t believe him”. “There’s a kind of parity of esteem of information on the net,” Pratchett told Gates in GQ.

Source: www.nme.com