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It’s Wednesday, October 1. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today: Elliot Ackerman dissects Pete Hegseth’s speech on what it means to be a warrior. Peter Savodnik reports from the hometown of Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer. River Page explains why the Rapture went viral. And much more.
But first: Wikipedia is broken. Here’s how to fix it.
Once upon a time, there was an institution that was trusted by the public as an impartial and reliable source of information. Then things changed. The institution still claimed to be impartial. Its leaders still repeated the same mantras about the truth and trustworthiness, but the information it provided grew steadily more ideological. The change became impossible to ignore—and the public started to ask: Does this institution deserve our trust?
If this story sounds familiar, it’s because it could describe so many of the institutions that we once relied on to bring us information. In fact, it might just be the story of our times. This crisis of trustworthiness is the skeleton key to understanding so much of the turbulence and disorder in public life today.
It’s certainly the story of The New York Times, NPR, and countless other media organizations. It’s the story of all too many institutions in medicine and public health.
It’s also the story of Wikipedia.
We’ve reported before on how a website founded on an idealistic mission to provide all the world’s information for free—and to do so democratically—has been hijacked by ideologues. Today, we’re honored to publish one of the site’s founders, Larry Sanger.
Larry has been a vocal critic of what the site he built has become. In his vital essay for us today, he offers a remedy, or as he calls it, “my Hail Mary proposal to reform Wikipedia.” He does so, he writes, in the spirit of Martin Luther, who posted his famous 95 theses “out of love for the truth and the desire to elucidate it.”
—Oliver Wiseman
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