Jimmy Wales
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Wikipedia at 20: Did you know Will Ferrell was once not killed in a paragliding incident?
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 10, 2021, 06:00
It’s the information I don’t want from Wikipedia that always snares me. The detours. The footnotes. The link four lines into an entry that leads me to(...)

Is Ireland too risk-averse to create tech unicorns?
- Innovation
- August 30, 2018, 03:15
Failure, in most walks of life, can seem like such a final, irreversible misstep. In Silicon Valley it is just the beginning. Steve Jobs said of failu(...)

EU’s attempt at internet copyright reform is a ridiculous own goal
- Business
- June 21, 2018, 06:15
Wednesday was not a good day for the internet. In a morning vote in Brussels, the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) voted 14-9 to(...)

EU Parliament committee votes for tougher EU copyright rules to rein in tech giants
- Technology
- June 20, 2018, 12:56
Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech giants could face more curbs on their market power after a European Parliament committee voted in favour of(...)

Selfie protocol and staying on message in and away from the Davos spotlight
- Economy
- January 26, 2018, 06:00
For global business and political leaders gathered for the 48th World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, the hassle of getting to Europe’s highes(...)

Wikipedia co-founder embarks on mission to fix ‘broken’ media
- Media & Marketing
- October 27, 2017, 19:00
“It is a really good time to own a construction company and be the brother-in-law of the mayor of a big city,” according to Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy(...)

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to tackle ‘fake news’ at Dublin event
- Technology
- September 7, 2017, 05:00
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is to visit Dublin late next month to discuss the fight against fake news and how evidence-based journalism can help to (...)

Wikipedia founder aims to ‘fix the news’ with new site
- Technology
- May 4, 2017, 05:47
The news is broken but we’ve figured out how to fix it, says Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales. Wales talks about the good old days of reportage wher(...)

Wikipedia founder to fight fake news with ‘Wikitribune’
- Media & Marketing
- April 25, 2017, 07:50
Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, is launching a new online publication which will aim to fight fake news by pairing professional journalists (...)

Wikipedia group sues NSA over surveillance claims
- US
- March 10, 2015, 22:11
The US National Security Agency (NSA) is being sued by Wikimedia and other groups challenging one of its mass surveillance programmes, that they alleg(...)