Jimmy Wales

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6,110 appearances 12 recordings 11 series first heard Jun 2023 last heard 21 Jun

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The Little Things · Jimmy Wales on why the internet is such an angry place · 8 May 2026 podcast

And, you know, I talk about when we think about, you know, Facebook, for example.

So Facebook's done some, you know, a pretty good job from time to time.

I mean, mixed record.

But, you know, they'll shut down someone who has...

2 million followers with promoting really bad health conspiracy theories.

And they'll eventually shut them down.

Okay, that's good, but that's not really where I see the problem.

The problem is a little bit more subtle and deep than that.

And I like to use...

you know, a couple of basic stereotypes, which I admit are stereotypes.

So everybody's got a good stereotype of your cranky, maybe slightly racist uncle, right?

And everybody in the family sort of tolerates Uncle Ralph, but, you know, when it comes to Christmas dinner, you're kind of like, God, what's Ralph going to say this year, you know?

And

And then the sweet grandma.

And sweet grandma, you know, she's just lovely to the kids and supporting everybody and asking how school is and so on.

Or you put them both on social media and, you know, crazy uncle starts saying his outrageous things.

And guess what?

People respond.

They're like, oh, what are you doing?

And the algorithm goes, ooh, and next thing you know, Uncle Ralph's got 700 followers.

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