Barbara Speed on 20 years of Wikipedia
Journalist Barbara Speed joins the Prospect podcast to talk about the changing fortunes of one of the internet's most-visited websites: Wikipedia. Depending on who you speak to, Wikipedia is either a misinformation free-for-all overseen by self-selecting pedants or, as Barbara has it in her latest article, “the last redoubt of the idealism of the early World Wide Web.” Barbara joins assistant editor Rebecca Liu to discuss the past and future of this seemingly contradictory corner of the internet—and whether or not, in this new age of “alternative facts,” it might just be our unlikely saviour. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.