In the Tesla CEO’s world, no media source can be considered trustworthy, particularly those that criticise him.
Not content with trashing one treasured website this year, Elon Musk has turned his sights on another: Wikipedia, the crowdsourced encyclopedia founded in 2001, which has become to represent the very best of what the internet has to offer.
The Trumpian broadside was just the latest from Musk against sources of information that disseminate credible information. Unlike X which, as a private company, no longer has to share details on its financial condition since being purchased by Musk, the Wikimedia Foundation$US88 million on salaries and wages; $US15 million on awards and grants; and $US2.7 million on internet hosting – keeping Wikipedia and its related websites online.