WT Social: Wikipedia's Social Network Wants to 'End' Facebook | Social networks

Entrepreneur Jimmy Wales, one of the founders of Wikipedia, announced the arrival of the free encyclopedia in the social media market. Focused on news, WT Social wants to fight fake news and promises to be advertising free space. The new social network comes to rival Facebook directly: "Goodbye, Facebook, it's time for something new," pinned Wales during the Digital X Fair in Germany, where he announced the news last week.

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According to the businessman, the idea that WT Social follows the same principles of the platform me. Like Wikipedia, the social network will be funded by donations and will not feature advertisements. With the move, Wales seeks to distance itself from the Facebook polemic, which featured a number of scandals involving the sale of user data to third parties.

WT Social: Wikipedia's social network wants to 'wipe out' Facebook Photo: Playback / WT SocialWT Social: Wikipedia's social network wants to 'wipe out' Facebook Photo: Playback / WT Social

WT Social: Wikipedia's social network wants to 'wipe out' Facebook Photo: Playback / WT Social

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WT Social, in contrast, promises privacy: "We will never sell your data. Our platform survives on the generosity of individual donors to ensure privacy is protected, and your social space is free of advertisements," says WT Social on its page. main.

The new social network is also committed to helping combat fake news. In his Twitter, Wales explained that the model is an evolution of the concept of WikiTribune, a site where communication professionals produce news, and other volunteer professionals work collaboratively to edit it, revising the text and checking facts.

"This is an evolution of the WikiTribune concept when I realized that the problem of fake news and low quality content on both social networks (Facebook and Twitter in particular) and news sites," he said. Wikipedia's founder also added that WT Social will allow users to directly edit misleading headlines and flag problematic posts.

With a very rudimentary look and similar to Wikipedia, the social network is still under development, but it is already possible to register. On Twitter, Wales said he relied on massive community membership to "replace poison social networks."

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