We think it's important that we did this as a for-profit business that can be viable, that doesn't have to depend on, you know, the kindness of strangers, my own view is that that's the path that journalism needs to take — to figure out business models that work.

Steven Brill

Arkadiy knows that Vitaly is a well-respected minister, and would never agree if he knew the source of the information.

Sheldon accepted responsibility for his actions and the mistakes he made. Above all Michael Deng was a friend and Sheldon remains deeply saddened by his unintended death.

We should take this as a warning. If I had kids of TikTok age, I would certainly want to know what they're using as a search engine, i'd be upset enough if they were relying too much on Google and coming up with reports in school that were based on what they were reading on Wikipedia. But this takes it so many levels further.

That sounds like we're pretty strict.

What's really shocked us, since we started the company, is just the proliferation, particularly around health care, of hoax sites that are really in it for the money. They're in it for the ad revenue.

You have drug companies, you know, vaccine companies, whose ads are ending up on health care hoax sites.