> Dingledine's talk was the day prior to our meeting, and in it he criticised misinformed journalists for sensationalising the size and scale of the dark web.

> Dingledine's talk was the day prior to our meeting, and in it he criticised misinformed journalists for sensationalising the size and scale of the dark web. > "I think a lot of it comes down to incentive mismatches," he tells me, "where journalists have to create more controversy and get something so that everybody will want to read their article. > "The story is privacy is under threat around the world, and that's been the story for a while - so they need a new story." This feels like the single biggest problem in online journalism today. It seems like the root cause is really a dependence on ad impressions and page views for survival.