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.”

  • MehBlahEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    Better go get me a updated copy before…whatever.

  • redlemace
    1201·
    9 days ago

    Could it be he has issues with freedom of speech/opinion (actually freedom in general) ? Asking for a friend

    • Raiderkev
      70·
      9 days ago

      He has an issue with fact checking, and the fact that his bullshit rhetoric is proven false over and over and over on that site.

  • frunch
    86·
    9 days 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
      11·
      9 days 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.

      • .Donuts
        451·
        9 days ago

        Holy shit, what a sad website. Just a few random snippets:

        Marijuana is a highly addictive drug that causes (…) violence and violent fits

        Marriage is the divinely ordained covenant between one man and one woman

        The Bible, being the most comprehensive transcendent moral authority

        🤮

        • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
          29·
          9 days ago

          Many vaccines, including the Covid vaccines, are based on aborted fetal tissue, apparently to try to increase public acceptance of abortion.

          I’m not sure if this is Poe’s law in effect or if people are actually this stupid. I’m afraid it’s the latter.

        • hOrni
          14·
          9 days ago

          Are we sure this isn’t a parody website?

      • frunch
        12·
        9 days ago

        It’s like the Incel Bible, King Trump Edition lol

        Wtf these people literally live in a different reality

  • aarRJaay@lemm.eeEnglish
    43·
    9 days 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?

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      12·
      8 days 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.

      • SolidShake
        3·
        7 days ago

        republicans also thing that all the protests all over the world are paid for by democrats lol.

      • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
        2·
        7 days ago

        One thing I love in Wikipedia, is even pages whose interpretation I disagree with (and yes, Wikipedia absolutely has interpretation), tend to have enough detail that I can learn interesting things and get a feel for what we do know and what we don’t. Especially if I stumble upon some adjacent pages that have a very different take!

  • pseudonaut
    33·
    9 days 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.

    • Nangijala@feddit.dk
      2·
      7 days ago

      Have been donating to them yearly for a few years after they started their donation campaign. I forget how much I donate, but I’m considering raising my yearly donation now xD

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    251·
    9 days ago

    “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.

    You can’t buy it, but you can go create a conservative fork called whatever you want, and you can fund its operation. If people think that it’s better, they can choose to use it.

    There’s a Conservapedia, which I would call pretty off-the-rails; people have tried this before.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia

    Conservapedia (/kənˌsɜː®vəˈpiːdiə/; kən-SU®-və-PEE-di-ə) is an English-language, wiki-based, online encyclopedia written from a self-described American conservative[2] and fundamentalist Christian[3] point of view. The website was established in 2006 by American attorney and activist Andrew Schlafly, son of Phyllis Schlafly,[4][5] to counter what he perceived as a liberal bias on Wikipedia.[6][7] It uses editorials and a wiki-based system for content generation.

    Examples of Conservapedia’s ideology include its accusations against and strong criticism of former US president Barack Obama—including advocacy of Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories[8]—along with criticisms of atheism, feminism, homosexuality, the Democratic Party, and evolution. Conservapedia views Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity as promoting moral relativism,[9] claims that abortion increases risk of breast cancer, praises Republican politicians, supports celebrities and artistic works it believes represent moral standards in line with Christian family values, and espouses fundamentalist Christian doctrines such as Young Earth creationism.[10][11] Conservapedia’s “Conservative Bible Project” is a crowd-sourced retranslation of the English-language Bible which the site says to be “free of corruption by liberal untruths.”[12]

    • Lupus@feddit.org
      7·
      9 days ago

      Conservapedia views Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity as promoting moral relativism

      I just spat out my coffee :D utter lunacy

      • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
        3·
        8 days ago

        It’s been a few years since I checked, but I do recall their page about irrational numbers being hilarious. Felt like it was written by a high school gym teacher who also taught grade 9 math , so he didn’t really need to understand irrational numbers but was super irritated that they exist.

  • ssillyssadass
    22·
    9 days ago

    Of course he does, the site is filled with objective truths, which always makes him look bad.