Trust with Jimmy Wales

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Education, Careers, Self-improvement, Business

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Information is power. But how do we adapt now that most of the information we consume comes with a heavy bias? In an ironic twist of fate, it’s Wikipedia — the encyclopedia that anyone can edit — that has done one of the best jobs maintaining public trust in our polarized era. I sat down with the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, in front of a live studio audience to explore how we got here and how Wikipedia’s transparency and vulnerability may be a model for a better future. This…is A Bit of Optimism. For more on Jimmy, his work, and the Founders Forum summit that hosted our conversation, check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales https://ff.co/

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0:00.0	The internet has a problem.
0:08.8	This holder of once trustworthy information has become anything but.
0:13.6	We don't trust social media or even our news if it's on the internet.
0:18.8	But there's one glaring exception to this trend.
0:22.2	Wikipedia.
0:23.5	Wikipedia didn't used to be a trusted source of information and these days is one of the
0:28.8	most trusted sources of information.
0:32.8	So I sat down with Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, to talk to him about how Wikipedia
0:38.6	has been able to increase its trustworthiness and how we can bring a little more trust
0:43.5	back to the internet.
0:46.0	It's a particularly special episode because we recorded it in front of a live audience.
0:50.8	This is a bit of optimism.
0:55.5	So this is really fun for me because we're doing a live recording of a bit of optimism
1:02.0	at Soho Farmhouse at Founders Forum, part of London Tech Week which is really fun.
1:05.7	And I get to sit here with the indefatigable Jimmy Wales founder of Wikipedia.
1:12.0	The thing that I am fascinated about which is where the rest of the internet, the sort
1:16.6	of the big tech companies, are losing trust.
1:22.8	We don't trust the pictures we see on Instagram.
1:25.7	We definitely don't trust Twitter anymore.
1:28.5	Big media is losing credibility and the stuff that they're writing.
1:31.8	But Wikipedia, it has its issues and it has its ups and downs.
1:36.6	But Wikipedia, for the most part, has been able to maintain the public trust since you showed
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