WT:Social - Wikipedia co-founder’s ad-free Facebook rival explained

New social media network encourages high-quality discourse and content, but can it take on the web’s big guns?

Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia and creator of WT:Social
(Image credit: 2012 Getty Images)

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has launched a new social media platform that proclaims to be the antithesis of industry giants Facebook and Twitter.

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