Elon Musk’s Bizarre Offer: Will Give $1B To Wikipedia If They Change Name To This – News18

Elon Musk stays a outstanding determine in news headlines following his acquisition of X (previously Twitter). His quite a few selections have led to vital modifications to the platform, together with its rebranding to X and the removing of legacy checkmarks. Moreover, Musk continues to supply polarising recommendation.

Now, in a current growth, he has proposed a $1 billion supply to Wikipedia in alternate for a reputation change.

“I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia,” Elon Musk posted on X.  Musk added that that is “in the interests of accuracy.”

Musk was additionally fast to answer to X customers who replied to Musk about the identical. One consumer mentioned, “@Wikipedia, Do it! You can always change it back after you collect (the money). To this, Musk replied, “One year minimum. I mean, I’m a not fool lol.”

The similar day, Musk additionally acted interested in why Wikipedia calls for a lot cash from its readers. “Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money?”

He added, “It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone! So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know..”

Notably, this comes months after an alternate was noticed between Musk and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. In the current previous, Jimmy Wales took a dig at Musk for allegedly censoring the individuals who had been crucial of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Edrogan, and never permitting free speech.

With that mentioned, it have to be famous that Musk is thought for his antics on X, and within the current previous Musk has made different peculiar remarks as effectively. For occasion, Musk challenged Meta’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg for a cage match.

“Knock, knock … challenge accepted … open the door”.  “Thought you might want some tea, so I brought the bags,” Musk mentioned, tagging Mark Zuckerberg’s X account.

But evidently, Zuckerberg was fast to dismiss Musk’s claims after he replied to his feedback on X’s rival—Meta’s Threads app. “I think we can all agree Elon isn’t serious and it’s time to move on. I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity. Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead. If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I’m going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously,” the Facebook founder wrote, and the cage match by no means occurred.