NPR’s president and CEO said she abandoned the idea of a “free and open” internet as the mission of Wikipedia, which she used to lead, because it is a “white, male, Westernized construct.”
In a newly resurfaced video clip, Katherine Maher, who took over as NPR’s chief executive in January says she found Wikpedia’s “free and open” ethos “inherently limited.” The clip was posted to X by Christopher Rufo, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Maher served as chief executive at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, from 2019 to 2021.
“I have come to the opinion and the perspective that ‘free and open’ was a way of looking at the world that was inherently limited relative to what we were trying to achieve,” Maher says in the clip.
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