Elon Musk wants Wikipedia to change its name -- and he's offering $1 billion to the free online encyclopedia to do just that.
by JESSICA A. BOTELHO | The National DeskFILE - Elon Musk, who owns Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX, speaks at the Vivatech fair, June 16, 2023, in Paris. wants Wikipedia to change its name -- and he's offering $1 billion to the free online encyclopedia to do just that.I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to D**kipedia," Musk wrote on his social media platform X, which was formerly known as Twitter.
Wikipedia is inherently hierarchical and therefore subject to the biases of higher ranking editors, independent of their merits," he wrote. "@CommunityNotes requires people with historically different points of view, based on how they have rated and written Notes, to agree in order for Notes to be shown to the public. All code and data is open source, so you can recreate the outcome yourself.
Meanwhile, X started charging a $1 fee to new users in the Philippines and New Zealand, in a test designed to cut down on the spam and fake accounts flourishing on the site. It's not clear why it only applies to New Zealand and the Philippines or why those countries were chosen.
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