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🗓️ 28 October 2025
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In his new book, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales writes ”in the early years of the internet, we were right to be bullish about people and the technology. Our capacity for social connection, community and cooperation can deliver amazing things. But the very same human nature can deliver atrocities.”
Wales’s says he wrote this book to help combat a crisis of trust in society that is leading to the rise of authoritarianism. Marketplace’s Nova Safo asked him about the main lessons he learned from building Wikipedia into a highly-relied-upon source of information.
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| 0:50.7 | In his new book, The Seven Rules of Trust, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales writes, |
| 0:56.8 | In the early years of the internet, we were right to be bullish about people and the technology. |
| 1:02.0 | Our capacity for social connection, community, and cooperation can deliver amazing things. |
| 1:08.0 | But the very same human nature can deliver atrocities. Wales's book is subtitled |
| 1:13.9 | A Blueprint for Building Things That Last, and he says he wrote it to help combat a crisis of |
| 1:19.2 | trust in society that is leading to the rise of authoritarianism. I asked him about the main |
| 1:25.0 | lessons he learned from building Wikipedia into a highly relied upon source of information. |
| 1:31.0 | You know, for me, one of the things to recognize is that Wikipedia is really built on trust. |
| 1:37.6 | You know, anyone can come and join us, and that's a very open process, and you can edit pages without even logging in. |
| 1:43.6 | And, you know, that extending |
| 1:45.9 | trust to the general public has always seemed a little bit shocking, but it's particularly |
| 1:51.6 | shocking to realize this. If you contrast that with kind of the toxicity of social media and, |
| 1:58.1 | you know, a lot of the trolling and everything else that goes on online, |
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