Jimmy Wales

Let's see.

Let's try and do better.

If we find that we have been biased in some area, then we need to do a better job.

And I think that for many outlets that isn't happening.

Instead, what's happening is pandering to an existing audience.

And I understand why.

The reason why that's happened has to do with the business model, has to do with getting clicks online and so on and so forth.

It has to do with the fact that without sufficient financial resources...

You have to kind of scrap for every penny you can get in the short run rather than saying, no, we're going to take the long view, even though a few people may cancel.

And, you know, I just I'm encouraging us all to say, you know what, let's double down on that.

Let's let's really, really take very, very seriously the need to be trustworthy.

The most successful tweet I ever had, I think it was a New York Post journalist tweeted to Elon, you should just buy Wikipedia when he was complaining something about Wikipedia.

And I just wrote, not for sale.

Yeah, I do.

Yeah, I think it could.

And I actually think that the lessons are pretty timeless.

At the same time, yeah, it's absolutely valid to acknowledge the Internet is different now and there's new problems, new problems that come from it.

social media and all the rest and the you know the aggressively politicized culture wars that we live in uh that is different but i don't think that's a permanent change to humanity i think we're just going through a really crazy era and uh here we are

Well, you know, the thing is, I'm old enough that I sort of grew up on the Internet in the age of Usenet, which was this massive message board thing.

Kind of like Reddit today, except for not controlled by anyone because it was by design distributed and uncontrollable, unmoderatable for the most part.