LONDON: British people trust Wikipedia more than the mainstream media, the information site’s founder Jimmy Wales said yesterday, at the close of a three-day conference of the Wikimedia movement in London. A YouGov poll of almost 2,000 British adults found 64 percent trust the authors of Wikipedia entries to tell the truth “a great deal” or “a fair amount”.
This compared to 61 percent who trusted BBC news journalists, 45 percent who trusted journalists on broadsheet newspapers such as The Times and The Guardian, and 13 percent for journalists on tabloids such as The Sun.
“British people trust Wikipedia more than the news,” Wales said. “The thing that’s really impressive here is the BBC has an excellent reputation... and we’re trusted slightly more than the BBC. That’s a little scary.”
AFP
