Elon Musk willing to offer $1 Billion to wikipedia if it changes name to Dickipedia. Since taking control of Twitter and later renaming it to X, billionaire Elon Musk has been making headlines.
The founder of Tesla and SpaceX frequently makes posts on the microblogging site that pique the interest of readers all over the world.
Recently, the billionaire said that he would pay Wikipedia $1 billion if they changed their name. “I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia,” he said, adding that he would do so “in the interests of accuracy.”
When a user urged Wikipedia to go ahead with the name change, Mr Musk set another condition. “@Wikipedia, Do it! You can always change it back after you collect,” the user said. To which, the billionaire replied, “One year minimum. I mean, I’m a not fool lol.”
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In another post, he shared a screenshot of Wikipedia’s homepage which mentioned “Wikipedia is not for sale” and “a personal appeal from Jimmy Wales”. Mr Musk added, “Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone! So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know …”
Elon Musk willing to offer $1 Billion to wikipedia if it changes name to Dickipedia, check the Tweet:
I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia https://t.co/wxoHQdRICy
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 22, 2023
In a subsequent post, Mr. Musk also requested that a cow and poop emojis be added to his Wikipedia page.
His post has received over a thousand likes and 9.9 million views since it was shared.
“They’re always asking for donations, so be careful. They might come to collect,” said a user.
“Sounds like that cage match challenge,” commented a person.
A third person commented, “Buy it and put AI in charge of updating it autonomously.”
“Typical rich guy… Only willing to donate if the institution names itself after him!” remarked a user.
Another person added, “Looking at the replies I just can’t imagine these people are waking the same earth as me lmao.”
In a post published in May of this year, Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, called out Mr. Musk for not supporting free speech when he gave in to Turkey’s demands to censor content. Mr. Wales also mentioned that when he was in a similar situation, Wikipedia retaliated. Mr. Wales was criticizing Mr. Musk for censoring critics of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, a day before the country’s hotly contested presidential election.
“Did your brain fall out of your head, Yglesias? The choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety or limit access to some tweets. Which one do you want?” Mr Musk said.
In response to Musk’s tweet, he said, “What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan.”
When the telecommunications watchdog cited a law allowing it to prohibit access to websites deemed objectionable or a threat to national security, Wikipedia was blocked in Turkey for more than two years.
