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Quote by Matt Mullenweg: Online we can act as a fifth estate

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I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. So, on the whole, I think the power that online distribution confers is a positive thing for society. Online we can act as a fifth estate.

— Matt Mullenweg, “Online we can act as a fifth estate”, World Economic Forum, Davos, January 2013.

Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, wrote the piece in January 2013 for the World Economic Forum in Davos. We kept the line back then because it sums up so well what WordPress set out to do: give everyone their own voice online. It reads a little differently today, but the thought has stayed.

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Ellen Bauer

Ellen is the co-founder of Elmastudio and a Product Manager at Automattic. She speaks regularly at WordCamps about block themes, WooCommerce and building websites with AI. As a content creator she writes and talks about WordPress, open source, AI and personal development, sharing her own experiences and opinions along the way.

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