Lately, Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that the site is biased against conservatives.

“This is not the first time Musk has gone after the site. In December, he posted on X, “Stop donating to Wokepedia.” And that wasn’t even his first bad Wikipedia pun. “I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia,” he wrote, in an October, 2023, post. It seemed to be an ego thing at first. Musk objected to being described on his page as an “early investor” in Tesla, rather than as a founder, which is how he prefers to be identified, and seemed frustrated that he couldn’t just buy the site. But lately Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that Wikipedia—which, like all encyclopedias, is a tertiary source that relies on original reporting and research done by other media and scholars—is biased against conservatives.”

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      There are right-wing US conservatives who are freaking out that other countries are boycotting Musk/Tesla, and calling it some left-wing psyOps.

      Like Musk literally did the Hitler salute TWICE. The second time was in case you were mistaken.

  • segabased@lemmy.zip
    9·
    3 hours ago

    Conservativism is rooted in vibes and feelings, and false narratives to support those feelings. This is why they hate knowledge and people who attain it.

    It’s a disease of the mind, it’s like they would rather be animal than human

  • johncandy1812@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    5 hours ago

    Donate. How many times a day do you use wikipedia? It would be shit if it became another Fandom style wiki. With an ad every 3rd word.

    • TheGoddessAnoia@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      28 minutes ago

      We use Wikipedia a lot, mostly to understand references from another country or culture, the rest to answer the question: “Who the hell is s/he…” The latter enquiries are often interesting, but rarely resolve the real issue, which is “… and why is s/he famous?” At any rate, we send a goodly annual donation, because without Wikipedia, we’d be even more out of touch than we already are!

  • Daggity@lemm.ee
    11·
    5 hours ago

    Started a monthly 3 dollar donation when baby Nazi started shit talking Wikipedia some months ago.

    • vandsjov@feddit.dk
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Me too - they need it now more than ever when Trump and Musk starts focusing on Wikipedia.

  • aarRJaay@lemm.eeEnglish
    37·
    9 hours ago

    ‘which is how he prefers to be identified’ … hmnnn - so he CHOOSES to IDENTIFY as one thing and doesn’t like it when people don’t allow him to use his preferred identificaiton?

  • pseudonaut@lemmy.world
    28·
    10 hours ago

    Just donated. You should too.

    I love donating to Wikipedia because there’s so few FREE things anymore, and it’s one that benefits every single person on the planet.

  • frunch@lemmy.world
    75·
    15 hours ago

    Still cracks me up that “fact-checking” is taken to be such an offensive act. “Oh, sorry for correcting your lies! I suppose being exposed as a fraud could interfere with your plans to exploit the public…”

    Anyone that has a beef with sites designed to share objective, factual information is someone who benefits from lying or at very least keeping the truth under wraps

    • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
      8·
      8 hours ago

      Their aggressive stance against fact checking betrays their default position of bad faith & lack of empathy because they have been indoctrinated to the point of absolute unwavering certainly, similar to a cult. They abandon objective reality at all of our peril.