Jimmy Wales

You know, ultimately...

The idea that something being biased is a proper and fit subject for a congressional investigation is frankly absurd.

And so, you know, in terms of asking questions about cloak and dagger, whatever, we're not going to have anything useful to tell them.

I'm like, I know the Wikipedians, they're like a bunch of nice geeks.

I mean, it's embarrassing for the Heritage Foundation.

I remember when they were intellectually respectable.

And that's a shame that if that's what they think is the right way forward, they're just badly mistaken.

I mean, it's hard to say.

There's a lot of different motivations, a lot of different people.

Some of it would be, you know, genuine concern if they see that maybe Wikipedia is biased or, you know, I have seen, for example, Elon Musk has said Wikipedia is biased because they have this really strong rules about

Only citing mainstream media and the mainstream media is biased.

Okay.

I mean, that's an interesting question, interesting criticism.

Certainly, I think worthy of some reflection by everyone, the media and so on and so forth.

But it's hardly news to anybody and not actually that interesting.

Then other people in various places around the world, not speaking just of the US, but facts are threatening.

And if you and your policies are at odds with the facts, then you may find it very uncomfortable for people to simply explain the facts.

And I don't know, that's always going to be a difficulty.

But we're not about to say, gee, you know, maybe science isn't valid after all.

Maybe the COVID vaccine killed half the population.