Posted on 10/22/2023 4:14:10 PM PDT by jacknhoo
Elon Musk made a bold donation offer to Wikipedia, on one condition.
The Tesla CEO and owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, took to his social media account to offer the online encylcopedia a generous donation if they're willing to rename their site.
"I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia," wrote Musk. "Please add that to the [cow and poop emojis] on my wiki page," he continued. "In the interests of accuracy."
(Tweets at Link)
Journalist Ed Krassenstein later chimed in to encourage the organization to make the switch. "Do it! You can always change it back after you collect," wrote Krassenstein. "One year minimum. I mean, I'm not a fool lol," responded Musk.
(Tweets at link)
Musk's "offer" stems from an earlier tweet where he criticized the Wikimedia Foundation for wanting so much money. "It certainly isn't needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone!" tweeted Musk. "So, what's the money for? Inquiring minds want to know ... "
He didn't have to wait very long for an explanation, courtesy of the app's very own Community Notes citing that the free information organization handles "over 25B page views per month and over 44M page edits a month, requiring substantial operating costs." The notes also provided additional context that the Wikimedia Foundation employs third party financial auditors whose reports are made available to the public.
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In 2018, Musk tweeted his intentions to create a website named Pravda where the general public could rate the "core truth" of any article and "track the credibility score" of journalists, editors, and their publications.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Just by making the offer and publicity related to it is going to result in everyone calling it Dickipedia anyway
Deep State and leftists take over everything, take advantage etc…
Wikipedia has great info on so many things, but the set up allows the psychos to monopolize topics they see as useful to them.
“Best minds” don’t throw away money.
Sometimes I get the feeling that Elon’s wealth has gone to his head.
Elon should stipulate that to get the $1B they must not only change their name as he desires, but they must KEEP it that way. No switching briefly and then switching back. Never trust the left.
It is.
Wikipedia is controlled by Big Pharma and left-wing politicos. Surely they can go to their masters and get money whenever they need it.
Can we do “Richardipedia” for $500M?
I prefer Pr——apedia.
Sounds like a standard academic fool. Wikipedia is fine for some things. Want to know the melting point of a given metal, or what common ores they are mined from? Wikipedia will be a great source. For any topic that has anything to do with politics or history? Yeah, not so much.
Do you want to bring about the world created in the movie “Idiocracy” because this is how you do it?!?
Remember ButtF@ckers from the movie?!?
Great headline
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