Washington: Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and the world’s richest person has urged the public to refrain from donating to Wikipedia, claiming that it has become a platform “controlled by far-left activists.”
This happened after a user named Shaun Maguire in a post on X said, “Pirate Wires doing real journalism. While The Atlantic and NYT publish “Trump is Nazi” propaganda pieces.”
To which Musk replied, “Wikipedia is controlled by far-left activists. People should stop donating to them.”
This isn’t the first time the Tesla and SpaceX founder attacked Wikipedia for allegedly running ‘Left narratives.’
Musk’s latest post refers to a report by the US-based news website Pirate Wires that alleged “a coordinated campaign led by around 40 Wikipedia editors has worked to delegitimize Israel, present radical Islamist groups in a favourable light, and position fringe academic views on the Israel-Palestine conflict as mainstream over past years, intensifying after the October 7 attack.”
The report further alleged that six weeks after October 7, one of the Wikipedia editors successfully removed the mention of Hamas’ 1988 charter, which called for the killing of Jews and destruction of Israel from the entry of the terrorist group.
As per reports, the group also appears to promote the interests of the Iranian government across several articles and also delete huge amounts of the documented human rights crimes by [Islamic Republic Party] officials, the report at the intersection of technology, politics, and culture.
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