What Wikipedia Teaches Us About Balancing Truth and Beliefs | Katherine Maher | TED

Even with public trust at an all-time low, Wikipedia continues to maintain people's confidence. How do they do it? Former CEO of Wikimedia Foundation Katherine Maher delves into the transparent, adaptable and community-building ways the online encyclopedia brings free and reliable information to the public -- while also accounting for bias and difference of opinion. "The seeds of our disagreement can actually become the roots of our common purpose," she says.

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[sherriroach]

What a psycho. Discovering the truth isn’t important but “finding common ground” which is a euphemism for “drown out all dissent until no voice is heard except for those who agree with me”. She perfectly explains the slow death of the media.

[RM-dczd]

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”― Thomas Sowell
Katherine Maher - and democrats - would do well to listen.

[robyngoodwin]

It’s laughable now that we know about the facts at NPR. Zero opposing views.

[hermestyson]

"Intellectual honesty is a crime in any totalitarian country" - George Orwell

[nech]

The gaslighting and word salad she just did, what a load of bs, and so many people fell for that.

[ricdantas]

Truth by definition must be objective. There is no such thing as multiple truths that would negate the very definition of truth. Our point of view of the truth can be different, that is called an opinion, but for truth to be truth it must be unmovable also known as objective.

[xmoomy]

I'm happy many people can see through these lies and BS.

[drewwademan]

Oh thank God, I was about to comment how insane this bullshit is and how evil that naive child is…but it looks like everyone already has it covered. 😂
Good job everyone.
Man, Orwell wouldn’t believe how much he nailed it

[ViktoriaEvans]

Making her CEO of NPR is a death sentence to a company that was already struggling.

[MattAlexander]

People don’t own their own truth, they own their own opinions. This stinks of postmodernism.

[Adsflig]

An answer to the Jeopardy question, "What is Newspeak?"

[bobzelley]

She lost her credibility with the suspension of the NPR whistle blower . Member when NPR was balanced, we were safe, and Star Wars .

[funkmystar]

Maher said that property damage was "not the thing" Americans should be upset over.

Whilst looting is counterproductive, " it was "hard to be mad about protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression founded on treating people's ancestors as private property."

That is her honest assessment on twitter in 2020 when all the carnage was going on. Would’nt be saying that if her home was ransacked

[rafaelr]

Ted talks has been finding the most foolish people to lecture us.

[richspizzaparty]

Absolutely shameful and ultimately evil. And now she’s NPR’s ceo.

[natllite]

The truth is the truth. Interpretations off what the truth means will vary from person to person. This lady is a quack.

[crashtestcal]

So there’s a leadership group going “yeah, yeah she’s brilliant, let’s make her the CEO?!? I can’t comprehend how that’s possible, yet here we are. NPR is totally lost now. Sad.

[MatthewKennedyUK]

It doesn’t work, Wikipedia is widely known as appalling.

[howardskillington]

NPR used to be admirable. Now it is annoying, at best. That the overseers of the network would allow this person to become its CEO tells you all you need to know about its present lamentable state, and the dim prospects for its being salvaged.

[dcissignedon]

I originally had a lot to say about this woman, but I read the comments first. The majority of the comments have restored my faith in humanity. There's hope!