Yo, technology. What is it all about?

We do know that there has been a rise of completely fake news outlets, spreading viral content that's completely untrue.

And I do think that's a problem.

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to Danny in the Valley.

Season two.

Thank you very much for tuning in.

I hope you managed to have some time to disconnect and take part in some festivities over the end of the year, New Year.

I did.

But I was also very busy.

Going out and meeting lots of folks, lining up interviews, we've got a lot of really great stuff, really good guests, top guests for this upcoming season, which is all

very exciting. Starting with this week's guest, Jimmy Wales. Yes, the Jimmy Wales, the founder of

Wikipedia, which is now, I believe, the fifth most popular website on the planet.

It's in a bunch of languages.

It's got something like 45 million articles, and it's a charity.

So we're going to talk about that.

And Jimmy's next trick, which is trying to do the same thing to the news industry with a thing called Wiki Tribune.

But before we get to that, I want to just recount a quick story because I thought it was really

funny. I was interviewing a venture capitalist recently, and we had kind of a long meandering

conversation about lots of different stuff. And I just met the guy and you know, but it was a good conversation.

And when we were done, I was getting my stuff, I was getting ready to leave and I put my hand out to

shake his hand. And he hugged me. And this was like a real hug. This wasn't like one of those

one-armed kind of half-hearted type things. Like this was embrace, and he held me, and it was weird.

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