Jimmy Wales
Co-founder of Wikipedia
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| May 2024 | Became a joint signatory of a public letter of support for the UK Labour Party in the lead-up to the 2024 United Kingdom general election. |
| May 2022 | Commented on Elon Musk's proposed Twitter acquisition, expressing mixed opinions about potential outcomes. |
| 2021 | Wales revealed on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast that he had secretly lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina for one month. |
| October 2021 | Advocated for protecting strong encryption as essential for human rights. |
| September 2021 | Suggested Facebook and Twitter should use volunteer moderators to combat misinformation and abuse on their platforms. |
| May 2020 | Criticized Trump for threatening to regulate social media companies. |
| 2019 | Jimmy Wales became a British citizen. |
| November 2019 | Accused Twitter of giving preferential treatment to high-profile figures like Trump and Elon Musk by not banning them for controversial statements. |
| October 2019 | Wales launched WT Social, an ad-free social network. |
| 2017 | Wales announced the launch of WikiTribune, an online publication aimed at combating fake news through a collaborative approach of professional and citizen journalists. |
| 2016 | Signed an open letter with eleven other business leaders urging American voters not to vote for Donald Trump in the presidential election. |
| 2016 | Wikipedia editors perceived a potential conflict of interest regarding Wales's business Wikia in relation to the WMF's Knowledge Engine project. |
| 2015 | Awarded the Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University for spearheading the 'information revolution', receiving $1 million. |
| 2015 | Signed up as the committee chair for Democrat Lawrence Lessig's 2016 presidential campaign. |
| 2015 | Offered to help Ed Miliband with the Labour Party's social media strategy, which was declined. |
| 2014 | Commented on the Gamergate controversy, criticizing the movement and stating it had been 'permanently tarnished' by harassment. |
| May 26 2014 | Google appointed Wales to a seven-member committee on privacy in response to Google v. Gonzalez, focusing on website removal requests from search results. |
| March 21 2014 | Wales spoke on a panel at the Clinton Global Initiative University conference at Arizona State University, discussing 'the age of participation' and encouraging young people to use social media for societal change. |
| January 2014 | Wales joined The People's Operator as co-chair of the mobile phone network. |
| November 2013 | Described Edward Snowden as a 'hero' and criticized US government surveillance programs. |
| August 2013 | Criticized UK Prime Minister David Cameron's proposed Internet porn filter, calling the idea 'ridiculous'. |
| 2012 | Petitioned the UK Home Secretary regarding opposition to Richard O'Dwyer's extradition to the US, successfully reaching an agreement to avoid extradition. |
| October 6 2012 | Wales married Kate Garvey at Wesley's Chapel in London, after meeting her in Davos, Switzerland. |
| May 2012 | Wales began advising the UK government on making taxpayer-funded academic research freely available online, working as an unpaid advisor on crowdsourcing and policymaking. |
| November 24 2011 | Wales appeared on the British topical debate television program Question Time. |
| November 4 2011 | Wales delivered an hour-long address at The Sage Gateshead in the UK, launching the 2011 Free Thinking Festival on BBC Radio Three, focusing on the future of the internet and Wikipedia. |
| 2010 | Criticized WikiLeaks and Julian Assange for publishing Afghan war documents, arguing the publication could potentially endanger lives. |
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