{"id":289844,"date":"2025-10-24T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wikipedia-co-founder-jimmy-wales-on-the-crisis-of-trust-in-the-age-of-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:00:09","slug":"wikipedia-co-founder-jimmy-wales-on-the-crisis-of-trust-in-the-age-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wikipedia-co-founder-jimmy-wales-on-the-crisis-of-trust-in-the-age-of-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales on the crisis of trust in the age of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/guIMrAMD_9c\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales on the crisis of trust in the age of Trump\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/guIMrAMD_9c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia &#8211; the free digital encyclopedia that just about everyone in the Western world goes to if they need to quickly know anything.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>It has been going for almost 25 years, determinedly democratic, non-profit and user-run, but increasingly under attack by right-wing influencers, Republican politicians and Elon Musk for being biased and with an overly-progressive ideology. And now AI models like ChatGPT are parking their tanks firmly on Wikipedia&#8217;s lawn, claiming to be the real fount of all knowledge. Wikipedia calls them &quot;conversational chatbots&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>On this episode of Ways to Change the World, Jimmy Wales speaks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about the \u201ccrisis of trust\u201d, AI and why Wikipedia will continue to lead the way. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia &#8211; the free digital encyclopedia that just about everyone in the Western world goes to if they need to quickly know anything. 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