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supjeff | 6 years ago

Aside from the fact that wales' software is supposed to be free and open source and thus will not require its users to trust the founder as much as they are forced to with fb, how is Wales not more trustworthy than Zuck? One guy has a string of abuses and apologies spanning almost two decades as the founder, CEO and majority shareholder of a company that helped the Russian gov't steal the 2016 election and helped bring back eradicated diseases, and the other created a non-profit encyclopedia and gave away the source code?

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behringer|6 years ago

Not only that, but he managed to navigate his army of editors to weed out fake/pseudo scientific entries. He's the fake news anti-hero.