Rome, 24 December 2024 – An old enemy returns to the top of the black list Of Elon Musk. Replying to a comment on X (a social network he owns), the American billionaire warmly invited users to block donations to Wikipedia. “Stop donating to Wokepedia (modified name of Wikipedia: from 'woke' culture – wrote the tycoon – a political phenomenon that focuses on issues related to social, racial and sexual justice) until it rebalances its editorial policies.”
In Musk's sights are the procedures with which the online encyclopedia allows the modification of articles. In particular, the tycoon commented on a post which states that between 2023 and 2024 Wikipedia spent more than 50 million dollars – out of a total platform budget of 177 million – “to promote policies of “diversity, equality and inclusion”.
Elon Musk in a recent photo
This isn't the first time Musk has put Wikipedia under fire. Just over a year ago, again in a post A play on words which, translated summarily and without lapsing into vulgarity, would mean 'encyclopedia of nonsense'.
But it's not just Wikipedia that's being targeted social bursts from the US billionaire. Musk also blamed the New York Times of violating freedom of speech, guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Furthermore, the businessman said he was dissatisfied with the news agency's coverage Reuters on the economic and investment activities of his company Tesla, which produces electric cars, calling the agency “the worst mainstream media in the world”. He also branded the newspaper Guardian as “a disgusting propaganda machine” and the Associated Press news agency as “an extremely left-wing machine” for attempts to deny the incident with the outgoing US President Joe Biden, who “stuck” in public.
A series of broadsides, typical of the Musk character, launched while his intelligence company artificial xAI hoards funding. After raising 6 billion dollars in May, it collected the same amount from a very recent fundraising. Its market value, to date, is around 50 billion.
