Jimmy Wales
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Actually, I think it was a really important and positive moment.
There was a very famous photo of Pope Francis wearing an expensive puffer jacket.
And it went viral and got a lot of news coverage because it's like obviously fake.
Like this is Pope Francis was quite famously.
He didn't take advantage of any of the luxury.
Like he lived in a dorm room.
and that sort of thing.
He wouldn't be my first choice of a pope who goes in for the grandiosity of the office, right?
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.