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Wickpeta has errors. It will always have errors. But you particularly see, and i actuall haven't looked this up, there's a page on line you can look up the traffic to wickipedia pages. Our traffic about corona virus has gone through the roof. And that is because people are typing it into search engines,. and they're going to click on wickpedia because they trust wich Wikipedia. They know, of course, it isn't perfect and so forth, but they also know that it's honest and that it's calm and that it’s going to be fact based. Do you feel it also comes with a heavy responsibility for you?

Chris Hirst, Global CEO of advertising group Havas Creative, cuts through the bullshit and gets to the heart of modern leadership in this straight-talking podcast brought to you by Intelligence Squared. In this episode Chris Hirst speaks to the internet pioneer and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales who is perhaps the most famous silicon-valley entrepreneur to not become a billionaire. Wikipedia has changed how knowledge is accessed across the world, with 1.5 billion devices accessing the site every month. Jimmy Wales is also founder of the Wikimedia Foundation and co-founder of Wikia, a privately owned free web hosting service he set up in 2004. In 2019 he founded WT.Social, a microblogging site pitched as a 'non-toxic social network...where advertisers don't call the shots'. The service contains no advertisements and runs off donations. To subscribe click here: https://pod.link/1533418365

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