Trust with Jimmy Wales

20 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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Jimmy Wales reflects on the current crisis of trust in news sources, arguing people struggle to find legitimate, unbiased news. He presents Wikipedia as a popular refuge that (ideally) offers balanced, non-partisan overviews so readers can understand events rather than receive a single partisan line; he also comments on information bubbles and people’s desire to understand the world.

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We don't even know where to go anymore to get legitimate news if we're looking for it. Yeah. So if you think about that, like, what would you really want? I think that's one of the reasons Wikipedia is really popular, at least. Hopefully you go to Wikipedia and you do get sort of an understanding of what happened, what's the issue, what's going on in a way that shouldn't sort of lean left or right. People do want that. They have a passion for that. They don't want to to be fed one line. They want to understand the world. Again, not everybody people are perfectly content to live in a bubble. But I actually think even a lot of the people who are perfectly content to live in a bubble are victims of the bubble they're living in. But I think people, you know, Aristotelian thinking, you know, sort of people want to know they love to understand the world.
Rather than just be fed an illusion.