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Musk, Wikipedia Founder In Row Over How To Describe 'Nazi Salute'

The gesture was controversial enough, but now come the sub-controversies: Elon Musk is trolling Wikipedia and encouraging its defunding after a description of his recent flourish, seen by some as a Hitler salute, appeared on the encyclopedic website.

International Business Times

Elon Musk Among Tech Billionaires Aiming to 'Defund' Wikipedia, Calling It 'An Extension of Legacy Media Propaganda'

Elon Musk and a cohort of tech billionaires are rallying together to delegitimize Wikipedia.

Latin Times

Elon Musk furious after Wikipedia page calls his controversial gesture a ‘Nazi salute’

‘Defund Wikipedia until [the] balance is restored!’ Musk spouted on his social media platform X

The Independent UK

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Project to 'free social media from billionaire control' plans to take on Musk and Zuck using Bluesky's open source protocol: 'It will take years and hundreds of millions of dollars'

Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, actor Mark Ruffalo, and more have endorsed Free Our Feeds.

PC Gamer

Hollywood stars and geeks unite to billionaire-proof social media

The likes of Mark Ruffalo and Jimmy Wales are backing the Free Our Feeds project, to ensure Bluesky's tech will thrive even if the company goes bad.

Fortune

'No More Donations to Wikipedia': Elon Musk Slams Site Over Alleged Erroneous Deletions to Bill Clinton's Page

Musk quote-retweeted a video from the user @BGatesIsaPyscho and stated, 'No more donations to @Wikipedia until they start being truthful'.

International Business Times UK

Exploring The Top 10 Internet Visionaries

Discover the pioneers who shaped the digital world, from inventing the web to disrupting entertainment and social media.

Top News

Brazil President's Wife Clashes With Elon Musk, Threatens To Sue X

This is not the first time that Musk has been involved in a Twitter feud with someone.

International Business Times UK

Even Wikipedia's founder thinks ChatGPT is a 'mess and doesn't work at all'

Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's founder, recently highlighted his concerns regarding OpenAI's AI-powered tool, especially its accuracy. The founder explained that using the tool to generate text on the platform was a mess as it did a terrible job since it got most of the details wrong and even provided inaccurate information.

Windows Central

Wikipedia Founder Says ChatGPT-4 Is Terrible At Writing Wikipedia Articles

Despite criticising current generative AI models, Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales hasn't ruled out the idea of using AI for the free online encyclopedia.

International Business Times UK

Wikipedia founder slams Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter as a ‘huge problem’ and says it is ‘being overrun by trolls and lunatics’

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says X—once Twitter—is overrun by trolls under Elon Musk.

Fortune

Wikipedia founder warns against relying on ChatGPT — it makes too many mistakes

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says ChatGPT ‘isn’t good enough for a great many things’ and could take 30 years to reach human-level intelligence.

Tom’s Guide

Wikipedia cofounder takes a pop at Musk's X—and says he's never heard of Grok

The jibes were the latest round of a series of spats between the world's richest man Musk and the Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales.

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The Guardian - UK

Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him

The X owner has no time for a democratic experiment dedicated to knowledge. He would rather yell puerile ‘jokes’ into the ether, writes Zoe Williams

PC Gamer

Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site

Citing "lack of transparency from Fandom [...] loss of features [...] and toxic company culture."

Reason

Interviewing Jimmy Wales, Cofounder of Wikipedia

Episode 460 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

Reason

Don't Blame Elon Musk for Turkey's Authoritarian Twitter Censorship

Anger about social media censorship should be directed at repressive governments, not the companies they threaten.

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Salon

Elon's Turkey censorship: Tip of iceberg

Musk attacked for censoring Turkish opposition — but that's just one example of Twitter’s deference to government

Reason

Twitter Caved to Censorship Requests From Turkey's Authoritarian Government

Plus: Flight attendants report dad as human trafficker, the suburbs are thriving, and more...

Fortune

Wikipedia founder blasts Elon Musk for caving to Turkey's censorship demands

Musk admitted he helped remove content from Twitter at the behest of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of Sunday's key elections.

Zenger

Jimmy Wales Wonders If AI Could Be Next Editor-In-Chief Of Wikipedia — He Has One Problem Though

It appears tech website CNET might not be the only platform experimenting with OpenAI's ChatGPT and its incredible writing skills

Evening Standard

Will Wikipedia be written by AI? Founder Jimmy Wales is thinking about it

By now, even those of us who live under a rock have become familiar with ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot that can find us the answer to almost every question under the sun. It seems to be able to effortlessly write reports, compose letters or even poetry — for any subject…

Evening Standard

Majority of Wikipedia editors are still men - so how is the online encyclopaedia addressing the issue?

The decade-long mission to broaden participation on the site has yielded results - but Alys Key examines why progress is still slow.

Glasgow Live

The humble Glasgow building that was named as Wikipedia's one millionth article

We've always known Glasgow's a one-in-a-million kind of place, but it was nice to see this confirmed when Wikipedia announced its one millionth article way back in 2006.

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