Jimmy Wales
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But people knew that and they're like, oh, wow, it really looks real.
And that's important that people should know.
Just because you see something floating across social media, that doesn't mean it's true.
And I hope it's actually pushing people in the direction of saying,
Actually, I do care about old school journalism.
Like, I want to know where that photo came from.
Is it from a trustworthy news organization?
If it's from Reuters, that's one thing.
If it just rocked up in my Twitter feed, that's completely different.
My little personal story about this was I saw you remember there was a dam in the Ukraine war, a dam in Ukraine, which got blown up and flooded like a huge portion of the country a few years ago, a few years ago.
And people have been worried for some time that this because it's like a major piece of infrastructure there.
And then I was actually in the U.S.
at my mom's house and it's late at night.
And I just saw on social media, I saw this little short video of like drone footage of water gushing through the dam.
And then I go, oh, my God, the dam has been blown.
And I was like, eh, has it?
Because it's not on the BBC.
It's not on CNN.
It's not on Reuters.
It's not in the news.