You read the news. But if Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales' hunch is right, you'll want to edit it, too.  Wales is raising money to bring a new model of ad-free news creation to the web: one that would mix professional journalists with volunteer editors. Wales, like so many other idealists who believe in a better public discourse, wants to fix the fake news problem he sees as driven by a clickbait economy where accuracy comes second to intrigue.

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