Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
"Wikipedia is built on the premise that it becomes better when more people of different backgrounds—including political persuasions—source, edit, curate and research content. Our equity goal advances that. The 'Safety & Inclusion' goal (now titled 'Safety & Integrity' in our 2024-2025 plan) is focused on ensuring that people are able to freely access and safely contribute to knowledge on Wikipedia in a changing legal and policy environment globally."
Magoo: RAAAAGGGGEEEEE!!! WHITE CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS are the only REAL people!! WE'RE the only people that matter!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources
I just read that list. How many conservative sources are listed as "Reliable Sources" I see Reason, but I'm not sure I'd consider them conservative.
If you didn't buy a bunch of hard drives on Black Friday, ya probably should've.
Information is about to get restricted. Authoritarianism is coming down the pipes.
Buckle up, buttercup. Encrypt that shit and hang on.
This parasite is doing his best to lead humanity further down the path of annihilation. He needs to go.
I donate $20 every year, but I also donate again whenever this goof makes headlines going after Wikipedia. Feels good. Fuck you, cunt.
Does anyone know what the equality money is spent on?
Is it things censorship bypassing or something else?
Fourth most visited site in the world.. he wants to install ads on it and own it.
(and control what it says)
He's being filed by a constant stream of validation from musk simps, yes men, now the next POTUS, so he thinks he's unstoppable.
Well, I hate to admit it, but I've never donated to Wikipedia.
But this just made me set up a recurring donation. Streisand effect sorta, I guess.
Fuck Elon Musk.
Just like he's increasing Secular Talk viewership he's also increasing Wikipedia donations.
I hope lots of folks also download copies of Wikipedia, just in case. Elon is a sore loser type with too much money and free time.
I'm kinda in awe how Elon finds every day new ways to be a utter and complete piece of shit.
This too is greed. Wikipedia is too accurate, and he doesn't want the truth to be remembered.
It's a super power. No ordinary person could do it this much.
No ordinary has enough free time to even attempt it!
I'm not, only because I've never once been in awe of any damn thing that piece of shit has ever
donestolen credit for, and don't intend to start now.
Time to annually donate to wikipedia.
You know, I do usually, but now I'm going to go monthly.
Been monthly for years. I truly believe it is the most important thing humanity has ever built. Nothing has done more to make knowledge accessible.
I donated once this month already but I'll fucking do it again.
Can somebody take aim on his head finally?
Gonna need Mario for that
Won't somebody rid us of this meddlesome billionaire?
TBH i think we need Mario for this one
He is rather turbulent
Nah, too basic and low-tech. He deserves nothing less than a drone strike
It would be more suitable for Mr. "I AM High Tech Personified" to be taken out in a decidedly low tech way.
Maybe we can combine high and low tech: a drone that drops lazy dogs on him. Those things are REALLY nasty and very hard to defend against.
Drone strikes are too covert.
You want death to knock first for a guy like Musk. Make him answer the door.
Crowdsourced information does put a bit of a damper on the whole “history written by the victors” thing.
Elon takes aim and the media are right there to make his job easier. Thank goodness there's reporting on everything he wants.
Guy who owns biased platform claims other platform that has negative views on him is biased. Someone tell Elon that if he donates enough he can have controlling shares of Wiki. He can't, but he doesn't have to know that.
Ah yes, any platform that may contradict his obvious attempt to dominate America through propaganda must be removed.
Made a donation just to spite him. Fuck you Elon.
The reaction to this completely neutral article says it all. Right-wing snowflakes gonna ❄️.Edit: Or not... see @ChairmanMeow's response.
I think this is just a case of unclear UI. This is the default stance of the meter, before you've entered a vote. After you vote it shows the most common answer underneath the meter.
I voted just now, and the most common vote was "fair/center".
Note how the needle is also off the meter, instead of pointing at one of the segments.
wow that is truly awful UI you’re right
Thanks for your reply. That's a really bad design.
Btw.
In January 2024, David Rozado, an associate professor in computational science at New Zealand's Otago Polytechnic, published a study that found: "Wikipedia was more likely to portray right-leaning figures negatively than their left-leaning counterparts."
The real question is not whether Wikipedia is biased, but whether it's fair. In politics not everybody is equally right. And there are some real shit heads on the right. In other words Elon Musk is not entitled to a positive Wikipedia page.
Oh, that reminds me I have to renew my donation.
ugh