The Creator of Wikipedia has launched its new project

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We All know Jimmy Wales, the man who in 2001 created a free online encyclopedia called . For sixteen years this project has become so that today they are used daily by hundreds of millions of people from dozens of countries. Even difficult to imagine how we lived before without such a convenient service, combining virtually all of human knowledge in different languages. But Jimmy Wales is not sitting in place and continues to actively engage with their new projects.

The New site Creator called Wikipedia, and its main aim is the exposing of fake news in the global Internet. Wales himself says that journalism should be based on facts, not on speculation or yellow headers for the sake of increasing readership. Lately, between some countries there is an active information war, when the government-controlled state media bend over backwards just to achieve their propaganda purposes.

will regularly publish articles of professional journalists, which will then be checked for veracity a large number of volunteers from different countries. This will make transparent the work of the media and to identify the most reliable sources of information, as well as to expose those who abuse the trust of their readers. The service is completely free and devoid of integrated advertising. Like Wikipedia, the website is going to include the expense of voluntary donations of its users.

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