Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is the latest tech leader to try his hand at solving the fake news problem. Wales on Monday launched an ad-free news service called Wikitribune, which aims to hire professional journalists but let readers view a story's sources to judge its veracity.
Wales envisions Wikitribune as the first time that citizen journalists will work with professionals to collaborate on stories, according to The Guardian. Members of the site will be able to see a story's sources and edit it, much like Wikipedia.
"This will be the first time that professional journalists and citizen journalists will work side-by-side as equals writing stories as they happen, editing them live as they develop, and at all times backed by a community checking and rechecking all facts," Wales told The Guardian.
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Wikitribune will neither display ads nor erect a paywall, two of the techniques that newspapers and other traditional media organizations use to make money online. Instead, Wales intends to fund the project through voluntary monthly subscriptions. He has set a goal of hiring 10 journalists in the next 30 days, and promised to refund early donors if that doesn't happen.
After the spread of fake news online entered the national political sphere in last year's presidential election, many tech companies have suggested ways to solve it. Last week, Facebook and Mozilla teamed up with Craigslist founder Craig Newmark along with academic institutions, nonprofits, and other organizations to launch a consortium to fund research and projects designed to increase the public's trust in online media.
Shortly after the election in November, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg denied that the spread of fake news on his social network played a role in President Donald Trump's victory. "Personally, I think the idea that fake news on Facebook — of which, it's a very small amount of the content — influenced the election in any way… is a pretty crazy idea," Zuckerberg said.
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