Elon Musk re-offers Wikimedia 1 Billion USD to rename Wikipedia to "Dickipedia" for a year

[journo]

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tec ... 637523.cms
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/el ... r-AA1wsUvV

Dickipedia T-shirts are now a thing also
https://www.tubefilter.com/2023/10/26/s ... elon-musk/

[journo]

Neither Wikimedia nor the Wikipedia community has responded to the offer by the world's richest man to call themselves dickheads by name.

However, Elon's EN:WP page has been copyedited a ton since the most recent Elon statements, as well as a few more negative statements added.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1264668438

[Bbb23sucks]

Already discussed: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3083

As a side note, the funniest thing about Elon Musk is that most of the people who hate him now loved him five years ago.

[Ognistysztorm]

Already discussed: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3083

As a side note, the funniest thing about Elon Musk is that most of the people who hate him now loved him five years ago.

Latest from Elon Musk:
https://entrevue.fr/en/elon-musk-appell ... ogie-woke/

[Ognistysztorm]

Don’t take it from me (I’m just a frog after all), take it from the co-founder of Wikipedia

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1873992969378029874

[badmachine]

much hay is being made on social media of the removal from Bill Clinton's wikipedia article of all mentions of Jeffrey Epstein on July 22 2024. the user who moved the content to the lesser viewed 'sexual misconduct of Bill Clinton' article is called ThingsCanOnlyGetWetter, now blocked as a sockpuppet of InPursuitOfAMorePerfectUnion. do we know anything about this user? to the naked eye it seems to be a Brit with an interest in American politics but the Epstein deletion makes it seem like this is a spook from one of America's numerous three-letter-agencies.

here is the tweet from Elon Musk: link

[Archer]

Clownish nonsense. I despise twitter.

[ericbarbour]

much hay is being made on social media of the removal from Bill Clinton's wikipedia article of all mentions of Jeffrey Epstein on July 22 2024. the user who moved the content to the lesser viewed 'sexual misconduct of Bill Clinton' article is called ThingsCanOnlyGetWetter, now blocked as a sockpuppet of InPursuitOfAMorePerfectUnion. do we know anything about this user? to the naked eye it seems to be a Brit with an interest in American politics but the Epstein deletion makes it seem like this is a spook from one of America's numerous three-letter-agencies.

chances of that are pretty good--spy agencies have piddled around on various WPs before.

Clownish nonsense. I despise twitter.

Many do, yet I continue to see "prominent journalists" hanging around on the thing. They have been REPEATEDLY told to stop using it as a "source", and find another place to jabber at each other about political trivia and post pics of their lunches, but they just won't give it up--even when Musk (MR. FREE SPEECH!) bans them because they (remember Ken Klippenstein? remember Glenn Greenwald? remember this?) posted something Musk didn't like.

The average working journalist is a damn fool and a lazy turd, I am forced to conclude. Even the ones at the New York Times. Journalists also use Wikipedia as a "reliable background source" even when they really should not.
https://www.theverge.com/23671036/journ ... musk-media
https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/04/the-n ... n-a-while/
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/baq ... policy.php
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/12/2368 ... c-substack

And yes kids: tesladeaths.com is STILL being updated. They openly admit their listings are hopelessly inaccurate and they get almost no reports from non-English-language countries. Teslas are being sold in at least 28 countries at present.

[Strelnikov]

....and yet I continue to see "prominent journalists" hanging around on the thing. They have been REPEATEDLY told to stop using it as a "source"....

You don't understand journalists; they are hanging around hoping somebody spills the beans on something under the rule of "where there's smoke there has to be fire". There have been leaks on Twitter in the past or at least clues that lead to bigger stories. Mastodon is boring. BlueSky is allegedly an echo chamber. Twitter is where right-wing assholes hang out thanks to Musk, and some of them are involved with the forthcoming Trump omnishambles "administration", so of course journos are hanging around.

[ericbarbour]

Twitter is where right-wing assholes hang out thanks to Musk, and some of them are involved with the forthcoming Trump omnishambles "administration", so of course journos are hanging around.

Yes, I get that. Problem is when they foolishly take what they see in there as "factual". Musk is doing all kinds of things in the background to prevent "factuality". We don't even know what, because it was always secretive, and under him it became more paranoid than, say, the NSA.