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Battery powered #junk.
"#Tesla has announced a recall of approximately 239,000 vehicles due to a software issue that could cause the rearview camera to not display images."
https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-recalls-24000-vehicles-nhtsa-opens-probe-2012999

Tesla Recalls 700,000 Vehicles Over Tire Pressure Warning Failure
https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-recalls-700000-vehicles-tire-pressure-warning-failure-2004118
#elonmusk needs a recall for behavior health maintenance.

Tesla Recalls 700,000 Vehicles Over Tire Pressure Warning Failure

Tesla is recalling 700,000 vehicles due to a problem with the tire pressure monitoring system's warning light.
Michael D. Carroll (Newsweek)
#elonmusk #tesla #junk

#musk #elonmusk #trump #republican #usa #germany #afd #aliceweidel #us #farright #weird #politics #racist
Proof (if it was ever needed) Musk’s as right wing as you can get. When he started SpaceX I saw him as a visionary, now I think he’s a strange, deranged, and very disturbing Bond villain…
https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musks-afd-broadcast-cleared-up-any-doubts-over-his-attitude-to-germanys-far-right-13286242

Elon Musk's AfD broadcast cleared up any doubts over his attitude to Germany's far right

The X owner's conversation with AfD's co-leader was broadcast live on the social media app - and saw Alice Weidel make the remarkable claim that Adolf Hitler was not a far right dictator but "a socialist, communist guy".
Adam Parsons (Sky News)
#trump #musk #elonmusk #germany #us #politics #usa #weird #republican #afd #farright #racist #aliceweidel

Thanks to #Trump and #ElonMusk, millions will now believe toxic, racist lies about the #LosAngeles #wildfires
#trump #elonmusk #losangeles #wildfires

Currently on #Twitter #X

Fascist #elonmusk and Chaya Reich-ik #libsoftiktok are doubling down on the disinformation about "DEI hires" in the @lafd.bsky.social, while their followers help spread that blatant lie. All while people lose everything and/or are dying.

In reality 1/2 ⤵️ #PalisadesFire

#elonmusk #twitter #x #LibsofTikTok #palisadesfire

Unfortunately, there are very few European heads of state who speak the truth about Palestine, Musk, etc.

«Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has lashed out at billionaire Elon Musk for interfering in European politics, accusing him of undermining democracy.»

#PedroSanchez #ElonMusk

https://nitter.privacydev.net/dwnews/status/1877023476755624110
The richest man on the planet openly attacks our institutions, incites hatred, and openly supports the heirs of Nazism in Germany.
#elonmusk #PedroSanchez

"The American-Filipino journalist [Maria Ressa] said Mark Zuckerberg’s move to relax content moderation on the Facebook and Instagram platforms would lead to a 'world without facts' and that was 'a world that’s right for a dictator'.'"

~ Dan Milmo

#MarkZuckerberg #ElonMusk #Trump #media #Meta #Facebook #disinformation #dictatorship #bullying #race #gender #SexualOrientation
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/08/facebook-end-factchecking-nobel-peace-prize-winner-maria-ressa
#trump #elonmusk #media #gender #facebook #meta #bullying #disinformation #dictatorship #race #markzuckerberg #sexualorientation

Facebook promises even more misinformation and hate speech.

My Facebook feed was already full of it, so it is impressive that they believe they can make it worse.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/tech/meta-censorship-moderation/index.html

#Facebook #Meta #Threads #Twitter #X #ElonMusk #Zuckerberg
#elonmusk #twitter #facebook #meta #threads #x #zuckerberg

It's called The Red Planet for a reason.

#elonmusk #mars #communism #socialism
Text that reads, "Elon after arriving on Mars and finding out all Martians are communist." Below this text are two images, the one on the left being an image of Marvin the Martian from "Looney Tunes" on Mars triumphantly holding a red flag with a yellow hammer and sickle on it, and on the right is an image of Elon Musk crying.
#elonmusk #mars #socialism #communism

‘Don’t feed the troll’: German chancellor responds to Elon Musk comments

World’s richest man has been voicing support for Germany’s far-right AfD party while insulting its current leaders

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/05/dont-feed-the-troll-german-chancellor-responds-to-elon-musk-comments

#PresidentMusk #ElonMusk #Musk is a complete and utter ____________
#musk #elonmusk #presidentmusk

2011: “Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik had extensive links to (Tommy Robinson’s) English Defence League”

#TommyRobinson #terrorism #EDL #ElonMusk

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/8661139/Norway-killer-Anders-Behring-Breivik-had-extensive-links-to-English-Defence-League.html

escenic

Anders Behring Breivik had extensive links to the far-Right English Defence League, senior members of the group have admitted.
The Telegraph
#elonmusk #terrorism #tommyrobinson #edl

I think the #Tesla #Troll is having a complete meltdown.
"#ElonMusk Pushes For Britain’s King Charles To Dissolve Parliament—As Lawmakers Say Tesla CEO Is ‘Misinformed’"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/01/04/elon-musk-pushes-for-britains-king-charles-to-dissolve-parliament-as-lawmakers-say-tesla-ceo-is-misinformed/

Elon Musk Pushes For Britain’s King Charles To Dissolve Parliament—As Lawmakers Say Tesla CEO Is ‘Misinformed’

The world’s richest man is “misjudged and certainly misinformed” about the British government’s handling of “grooming gangs,” U.K. lawmakers say.
Ty Roush (Forbes)
#elonmusk #tesla #troll

The man who killed himself by blowing up a #Tesla #Cybertruck outside #Trump's #LasVegas hotel was a hardcore #MAGA devotee and #ElonMusk stan.

He left notes calling for the military and others to "move on DC ... Occupy the campus of fed buildings by the hundreds of thousands ... Hold until the purge is complete ... Try peaceful means, but be prepared to fight to get the Dems out of the fed government and military by any means necessary"

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/wake-up-read-the-trump-hotel-bombers-chilling-messages-calling-on-militias-to-purge-d-c-of-democrats/
#terrorism #DOMTERR #Republicans
Mediaite+ ‘WAKE UP!’ Read the Trump Hotel Bomber’s Chilling Messages Calling on ‘Militias’ to ‘Purge’ D.C. of Democrats Kipp Jones Jan 3rd, 2025, 9:46 pm

Matthew Livelsberger Called for 'Purge' of Dems in D.C.

The man who detonated a Cybertruck at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas called on American veterans to use violence if necessary to "purge" Democrats from power.
Kipp Jones (Mediaite)
#trump #elonmusk #maga #tesla #lasvegas #terrorism #republicans #cybertruck #domterr

There certainly can be reasonable conversations about whether the Wikimedia Foundation needs to spend as much as it does, and the community has these conversations regularly. Most of the conversations I’ve seen from Musk and allies, however, are not such conversations.

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
There certainly can be reasonable conversations about whether the Wikimedia Foundation needs to spend $150–$200 million each year. I suspect few have had as detailed conversations about whether there is a need for such spending and fundraising, or about the tone of fundraising emails and banners, or the ultimate purposes of the spending as have Wikimedia’s very own volunteer editing community, which has a rather peculiar and at times adversarial relationship with the Wikimedia Foundation.495051 But “why does Wikipedia need more than the cost to serve a 50GB file” is not one such reasonable conversation. Nor are some of the other talking points that tend to come up in these kinds of conversations (“why does the Wikimedia Foundation pay employees six-figure salaries when they don’t even pay their editors??”k and “why do they need more money when they already have over $270 million??”52l are another two I see a lot). I personally have shared some of the concerns about the magnitude of spending by the Wikimedia Foundation in the past, and have disagreed with some of its allocations — but I’ll also note that I happily contributed money to the Wikimedia Foundation earlier this year, as I have in the past. k. Editing Wikipedia for pay is an enormously fraught topic, and the damaging incentives introduced by offering payment for edits at an organizational level would likely be ruinous. l. The Wikimedia Foundation tries to keep assets amounting to 12–18 months of expenses in reserve
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

Musk has occasionally brought up the question of why the Wikimedia Foundation needs such a large budget. (The Foundation’s annual budget for 2024–2025 is 0.3% of Musk’s proposed pay package, by the way.)

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Spending Some of the ostensible concern about Wikipedia revolves around its spending, though not about the most recent boneheaded claims that Wikipedia is “wasting $50 million” on “DEI” that I’ve already addressed. Amusingly, the question of whether the Wikimedia Foundation’s actual spending is justifiable is arguably Musk’s most reasonable argument, but it’s also one he hasn’t brought up in a long time. “Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone!j So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know …”, wrote Musk in October 2023.45 Setting aside why Elon Musk is the one asking this question — the man who says he personally needs a pay package46 of 300-500× the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual budget for the upcoming year47 — Musk betrays the same complete lack of understanding for how software companies work as when he acquired Twitter and claimed it would work just fine if he fired nearly everyone based on absurd evaluations of their productivity (it hasn’t).48 While the cost to simply host a 50-gigabyte stripped-down copy of Wikipedia, or even the hundreds of terabytes of all content across all projects, might be comparatively low, Musk is apparently ignorant to the massive infrastructure costs for running a project like Wikipedia: maintaining and developing MediaWiki (the software that doesn’t just display Wikipedia articles
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

However, even many of his complaints about supposed widespread bias still boil down to disgruntlement at how he personally is covered on Wikipedia.

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
However, even many of his complaints about widespread bias still boil down to disgruntlement at how he personally is covered on the site. Later that year, Musk complained “Wikipedia has a non-trivial left-wing bias”,42 in response to a tweet by Ian Miles Cheong, who observed that there was a deletion discussion underway for the “Twitter Files” article, adding: “These people work hand in hand with the MSM to shape the narrative.” (Anyone can propose a Wikipedia article for deletion, triggering such a discussion. Although deletion discussions normally last seven days, this one was closed early due to overwhelming consensus to keep the article. Neither Cheong nor Musk noted this outcome, and in fact a year later Cheong reposted Musk’s reply to complain, “I still think about this post and how Wikipedia hasn’t improved at all since then. It’s only gotten worse.”43) Only days after his outrage that the controversy he was trying to stoke might not be covered on Wikipedia, Musk was dismayed when a different controversy — with him at the center — was deemed sufficiently noteworthy for a Wikipedia page. “A two day suspension of maybe 7 accounts for doxxing got an actual Wikipedia page!?” he tweeted,44 referring to a Wikipedia article documenting the unexplained banning of ten journalists who had reported on Musk. Twitter and Musk would later try to retroactively justify the ban with a newly-created rule against sharing real-time flight information such as that posted by the ElonJet Tw
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

Only after failing to rewrite his own history on Wikipedia did Musk’s criticism expand to broader complaints, such as Wikipedia’s supposed systemic bias.

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Only after failing to rewrite his own history on Wikipedia did Musk’s criticism expand to broader complaints, such as Wikipedia’s supposed systemic bias. This crusade gained momentum through several high-profile incidents that became right-wing flashpoints, each fueling his campaign when the site’s coverage didn't match his desired framing. In July 2022, in one of his first tweets complaining about the site beyond where it mentioned him, Musk and others fell for the false statement by Mike Cernovich that “Wikipedia changed the definition of recession to favor the Biden regime, and then locked the page.”39 An article screenshot provided by Cernovich featured text that had remained unchanged since the Trump administration, but that didn’t stop a right-wing firestorm, joined by Musk, where people claimed that Wikipedia had removed the common definition of “recession” as two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. (It hadn’t). Tweet by Molly White @molly0xfff: absolutely begging people to learn how to diff wikipedia articles before falling for clickbait here's the "recession" article, on july 14 vs. today. [Image: Diff of two versions of the Wikipedia article on recession, showing minimal wording changes, and that a sentence was added: "Although the definition of a recession between different countries and scholars varies, two consecutive quarters of decline in a country's real gross domestic product is commonly used as a practical definition of a recession."]
After Musk replied to a tweet by Pirate Wires owner Mike Solanai to write “Wikipedia is losing its objectivity”, tagging Jimmy Wales,40 Wales pointed Musk to a note posted to the talk page by frustrated Wikipedia editors dealing with the onslaught of complaints he’d helped to stir up: ATTENTION NEW VISITORS TO THIS PAGE TL;DR from Beland: If you are about to hate-post "The definition of a recession is two quarters of declining GDP!": the article already says that, so this would be a waste of time unless you have further suggestions for improving the article. If you are here to complain Wikipedia changed the definition to favor the Biden administration, please don't, because 1.) the article has mentioned both the "two quarter" and NBER definitions for years, and that hasn't changed recently, 2.) after discussion by editors from a diversity of political perspectives, the introduction has actually been changed so it emphasizes the "two quarter" definition a little more, which we expect you will find satisfactorily neutral. But feel free to leave a note if you read the article and still have concerns. “Reading too much Twitter nonsense is making you stupid,” added Wales. “Call me next week if you want a real discussion.”41
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

Most of Musk’s ire towards Wikipedia stems from his anger that articles about him do not repeat his own attempts to write his personal and professional history.

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Personal grievances While these days Musk frames his crusade against Wikipedia as a principled stand against bias, the timeline of his complaints reveals a more personal motivation. His earliest grievances targeted his own Wikipedia biography, which accurately but much to his chagrin describes him as an “early investor” in Tesla rather than a founder.31h He’s also complained about the Tesla article, which he gripes “glorif[ies]” one of Tesla’s actual founders.32 He has repeatedly claimed his Wikipedia article was written by his “enemies”,3334 and has joined his fans’ complaints about the portion of his Wikipedia page outlining his role in spreading misinformation, bigotry, and conspiracy theories, agreeing with one who suggested “someone paid to have this written”.35 He has boasted so often363738 that has has not tried to “curate” his Wikipedia biography (by which he seems to mean edit it himself, or pay someone to do so on his behalf) that I wonder if he doth protest too much. (As a very highly-watched Wikipedia page, attempts by Musk or his lackeys to insert false or unverifiable portions of the autohagiography he repeats elsewhere would likely meet considerable resistance, as demonstrated by the battles between Musk fanboys — hired or otherwise — and Wikipedia editors that rage in the edit history and talk page.) This grandstanding rings hollow given his track record: when faced with unfavorable coverage elsewhere, Musk has shown no hesitation to exert direct control thro
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

The right’s frequent claims that right-leaning sources and viewpoints are “banned” on Wikipedia are also either misguided or intentionally deceptive.

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Source reliability A common complaint from Larry Sanger and others on the right has been Wikipedia's supposed “banning” of right-leaning sources. The reality is more complex: Wikipedia’s source reliability guidelines focus on accuracy and editorial practices, not political alignment. For instance, when the Daily Mail was deprecated as a source in 2017, it wasn’t because of its right-wing stance, but because of documented cases where it published false stories without correction, fabricated quotes, and manipulated images.30 Meanwhile, right-leaning publications with stronger fact-checking practices, like The Wall Street Journal and The Telegraph, remain widely used across Wikipedia. These nuances often get lost in politically-charged discussions about Wikipedia source reliability. Take the case of Fox News: while its opinion programming is generally considered unreliable due to numerous documented falsehoods, its straight news reporting is often deemed acceptable for topics outside of politics and science. Similarly, while the New York Post is considered unreliable for political coverage due to its tabloid approach and history of fabrications, it’s still sometimes used for entertainment coverage.
To reduce repetitive conversations about commonly cited sources, Wikipedia maintains a list of “perennial sources” — publications that are frequently used, and whose reliability is a recurring topic of time-consuming discussions about source usability.g The list segments publications from “generally reliable in its areas of expertise” to “generally unreliable” (use is normally not acceptable) or, more rarely, “deprecated” (use is rarely acceptable). However, source reliability is still taken case-by-case on Wikipedia, depending heavily on not just the publisher and its editorial practices, but also the statements a citation is intended to support, and the specifics of the article being cited. There are articles published in “generally reliable” publications that shouldn’t be used as sources on Wikipedia, and there are articles published in “generally unreliable” or even “deprecated” publications that are reasonably used as sources. This controversial page documenting the general view of reliability for some popular publications is anything but the canonical list of “approved” or “banned” sources many of its critics claim it to be. Whether a source is usable on Wikipedia is a case-by-case decision, as the page itself makes clear: What this page is a list of sources whose suitability for most/general purposes has been discussed repeatedly What this page is not a list of pre-approved sources that can be always used without regard for the ordinary rules of editing a list of ba
There also tends to be a common misconception, or perhaps deception, that only right-leaning sources are labeled unreliable, and only left-leaning sources reliable. While there are more unreliable sources on the list that lean far to the right than to the left, this is a product of the “post-truth” willingness on the right to publish falsehoods that are anywhere from reckless to intentionally fabricated. Organizations like One America News Network, Newsmax, and Project Veritas — all of which have repeatedly published false claims — have made their way onto the list thanks to this predilection. This is not an exclusively right-wing phenomenon — I myself found myself embroiled in long discussions several years ago about whether a very liberal website should be described as “fake news” on Wikipedia (and it is, as of writing) — but it’s far more common on the right. A mere glance at the perennial sources list is enough to disprove the suggestion that it slices cleanly along right/left lines. Left-wing publications like CounterPunch, the Daily Kos, and Occupy Democrats are in the “unreliable” list. Both right-leaning publications like National Review and Washington Examiner and the left-leaning Media Matters for America, Rolling Stone, and ThinkProgress are labeled “partisan sources”. And right-leaning outlets like The Telegraph, The Hill, Reason, and the Wall Street Journal have earned spots in the “generally reliable” section.
Claims that Wikipedia systematically excludes right-wing viewpoints also ignore how differing viewpoints are handled on the project. When covering controversial topics, Wikipedia editors are expected to describe significant viewpoints in proportion to their prominence in reliable sources — even when those viewpoints are outside the mainstream. For example, Wikipedia's article on climate change includes skeptical positions, but cites them primarily through scientific publications and other reliable coverage rather than through fringe publications or those with poor reputations for fact-checking and scientific rigor. Similarly, articles about electoral fraud claims cite Trump supporters’ perspectives, but through court filings and reliable reporting rather than through sources that have repeatedly published debunked claims. Scratch the surface, and complaints that Wikipedia does not describe these viewpoints at all are often revealed to be complaints that Wikipedia does not adopt these viewpoints as true, or treat widely debunked hypotheses with similar weight as broad scientific consensus.
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

Attacks on press freedom and free expression have become commonplace, even among the right’s self-described free speech champions. But neither Trump, Musk, nor anyone on the right can control Wikipedia as they wish.

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Control The rise of the MAGA right in the United States has sparked some startling changes in attitudes towards press freedom and freedom of expression. Although many on the right, including Musk,1819 have styled themselves as valiant defenders of free speech, their actions expose them as opposite: only willing to defend speech they find agreeable, while hostile towards and desperate to clamp down on criticism or opposing views. Musk, for example, has directed that “cisgender” be blocklisted on Twitter as a “slur”, and posts by most accounts that contain the word are automatically hidden from view (unlike posts containing the long list of slurs he has apparently deemed acceptable).20 He has brought SLAPP lawsuits against critics, including one dismissed by a federal judge as clearly intended to “punish [the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate] for CCDH publications that criticized X Corp. [Twitter] — and perhaps in order to dissuade others who might wish to engage in such criticism.”21 He spent $44 billion to acquire Twitter, ostensibly over concerns that conservative voices were being unfairly silenced, but really so that he could be the one to dictate which speech was and was not allowed on the platform. Similar attacks on speech are becoming only more common throughout the American right, with president-elect Trump’s longstanding hostility to the media escalating at a rapid clip. In recent months, Trump has suggested he wouldn’t mind if reporters were shot,
But neither Trump, Musk, nor anyone on the right can control Wikipedia as they wish. A 2022 tweet from a New York Post reporter, musing about how much Musk would have to spend to buy Wikipedia, was met with a clear rebuke from Jimmy Wales: “Not for sale.”28 The site later echoed the sentiment in its fundraising appeals, nodding at the idea that Musk should just “buy Wikipedia” like he did with Twitter when it reassured potential donors that “there is no danger that someone will buy Wikipedia and turn it into their personal playground.” Attempts to coerce changes to Wikipedia’s content via the legal system would likely fall flatter than lawsuits Musk and his ilk have threatened or filed against critics, because the Wikimedia Foundation has proven itself remarkably willing to fight back against formidable adversaries. In 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation denied Turkey’s attempts to force the site to alter information about the Turkish government’s support for terrorist organizations. When Turkey blocked Wikipedia access in response, the Foundation took the case to the Turkish supreme court, and access was restored in January 2020 after the court ruled the ban violated human rights to freedom of expression. The Foundation has likewise resisted threats from the United States, refusing to submit to legal threats from the FBI in 2010 after they demanded Wikipedia stop using an image of the FBI seal,29 and in 2015 filing suit against the NSA over its upstream mass surveillance program
This isn't to say Wikipedia is impervious to influence. While obvious vandalism and heavy-handed manipulation attempts typically fail quickly, more subtle influence campaigns can succeed, at least for a time, by working within Wikipedia's rules and social dynamics. Coordinated editing campaigns have sometimes pushed biased content, particularly in areas of the project that attract less attention. Governments have been accused of attempting to manipulate Wikipedia to favor their interests or spread propaganda, while paid editing firms have manipulated articles about corporations and politicians. But Wikipedia's transparency makes manipulation visible and correctable: every edit is publicly logged, discussed, and reversible. And a decree by a government or billionaire does not ultimately determine what content stays or goes. While some news outlets and other entities have proven willing to back down in the face of threats and demands from powerful figures (or has lacked the resources to do anything but), Wikipedia has not. This resilience against control helps explain why figures like Musk find Wikipedia so infuriating. They can buy platforms, threaten lawsuits, or pressure advertisers, but they cannot simply purchase or coerce control over Wikipedia.
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

Musk’s recent Twitter rampage reveals a man with a grudge against Wikipedia, looking for anything to support his position, regardless of whether it’s true. But why have Musk and others on the right chosen Wikipedia as a favorite punching bag?

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

Then, Musk amplified an erroneous and months-outdated claim that Bill Clinton had been deleting information about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein from Wikipedia.

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Then, in the early hours of December 31, Musk reposted a video from a self-described “Conspiracy Realist/Coincidence analyser” account, “@BGatesIsaPsycho”, which had in turn taken the video from antisemitic conspiracy theoristc and self-described “OSINT journalis[t] exposing globalism” Ian Carroll. “No more donations to Wikipedia until they start being truthful”, Musk added, atop a video where Carroll claimed that “someone deleted all of Bill Clinton’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein from Wikipedia”, suggesting that Clinton himself was behind the edits. This, again, was a complete misrepresentation: the text was moved, not deleted, and not likely by Bill Clinton.d If Carroll had cared to look at the public article editing history, he would have seen that the extremely long biographical article on Clinton was in fact split678 — as overlong articles often are9 — into separate subtopic articles, “Bill Clinton sexual assault and misconduct allegations” and “Post-presidency of Bill Clinton”, both of which are linked from the primary page. The Epstein-related section was restored to the primary Clinton article by a different editor three weeks later,10 shortly after Carroll published his video but months before Musk reshared it.
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

Recent tweets by Elon Musk, Libs of Tiktok, Mario Nawfal, and others have claimed that Wikipedia is spending “$50 million for DEI”, misrepresenting Wikipedia’s actual budget and financial statements to claim Wikipedia is now “Wokepedia”.

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
First was Chaya Raichik, also known as “Libs of TikTok,” who on December 23 screenshotted a pie chart of budget categories from the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2023–2024 annual plan.1 Apparently not bothering to read past the labels, Raichik dashed off a tweet condemning the Foundation for spending $50 million on “diversity, equity, and inclusion”,a the right’s latest bogeyman, and urging her own substantial follower base to “Stop donating to Wokepedia”.2b Musk agreed, amplifying her post with the comment: “Stop donating to Wokepedia until they restore balance to their editing authority.”3 [Image: Pie chart from Wikimedia’s annual plan, breaking down the budget by goal categories: Infrastructure, Equity, Safety & Inclusion, Effectiveness.] That the “safety & inclusion” link is not purple in this screenshot taken from Raichik’s tweet suggests she didn’t even bother to visit the page to determine what that category encompasses. a. “DEI” has been a recent addition to “CRT”, “wokeness”, and other dogwhistles used by conservatives and those further to the right to gesture at, and broadly oppose, racial and gender equality.5455 b. Rightwingers trying to come up with a slur against Wikipedia should really have considered something that doesn’t so closely overlap with Wookieepedia, a near-homograph that predates the “Wokepedia” coinage by twenty years, which makes me do a double take every time. For those who aren’t familiar,
Two days later, Musk retweeted Mario Nawfal, who had ripped off Raichik’s same post to produce his own, with the bold and all-caps headline “Wikipedia blows $50M on wokeness”. Nawfal added, “That’s $50 million for DEI instead of, you know, improving the actual site. … Sure, inclusion is nice, but maybe they could use some of that money to ensure they’re a reliable source of information first? Just a thought.”4 What Nawfal, Raichik, and Musk either failed to understand or deliberately misrepresented was that these budget categories they’ve dismissed as “DEI” directly support Wikipedia’s reliability. The funding goes to programs to expand coverage of underrepresented topics, recruit editors with expertise in neglected subject areas, develop tools to identify and counter coordinated disinformation campaigns, improve article and source reliability, and protect the project and its editors from attempts to censor or restrict access to Wikipedia content. Far from detracting from Wikipedia’s mission, these programs work to directly address the types of concerns Musk and others raise.5
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

#Tesla misses Q4 deliveries.

Because #elonmusk is a troll.

Competition and bad reputation are threatening to reduce Tesla market shares.

#investing
#Premarket
https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-delivery-fourth-quarter-stock-2603f318?mod=hp_LEDE_C_2
#elonmusk #tesla #premarket #investing

Journalists really need to stop referring to #ElonMusk's "Department of Government Efficiency" as if it were real. It's not, until and unless Congress creates and funds it. A president can listen to advice from anyone, but that's not the same as building an actual federal agency. Don't perpetuate a fraud. #journalism
#elonmusk #journalism

Before Elon Musk started taking verified badges from certain uses, he was already shutting down journalists and critics on his platform. Read the story of Micah Lee, who got banned from Twitter for posting a link to a public jet tracker. Now he is launching Cyd in the midst of a mass X exodus.

#TwitterCrackdown #JournalistsBanned #MuskHypocrisy #Xexodus #PublicTransparency #Cyd #FreedomOfInformation #MEGA #elonmusk #twitterMigration

Link: https://www.wired.com/story/x-delete-posts-cyd-micah-lee/
#elonmusk #twittermigration #freedomofinformation #twittercrackdown #journalistsbanned #muskhypocrisy #xexodus #publictransparency #cyd #mega

All hail President Musk.

#Trump #ElonMusk #inauguration

#trump #elonmusk #inauguration

The South African Fascist has been censoring progressives for years, but NBC has such massive Pro-Regime Bias that it never occurred to them to mention that.

Now that there are right wing victims suddenly it's headline worthy.

#NBC #USPolitics #Elon #Musk #ElonMusk #TheCons #Journalism #Media #ShitMedia #Bias #Clowns #USpolitics #FascistEnablers #GOP #resistance #FascistTakover #ProRegimePropaganda #ProRegimeBias

#musk #elonmusk #gop #journalism #media #resistance #clowns #elon #bias #uspolitics #nbc #FascistEnablers #fascisttakover #thecons #shitmedia #proregimepropaganda #proregimebias

Magdeburg attack fuels disinformation and mistrust in German leaders – POLITICO https://www.byteseu.com/593638/ #Borders #Disinformation #Elections #ElonMusk #Germany #Media #NancyFaeser #PeterNeumann #Platforms #Refugees #Rights #RobertHabeck #SaudiArabia #Security #SocialMedia #Terrorism
Magdeburg attack fuels disinformation and mistrust in German leaders – POLITICO

Magdeburg attack fuels disinformation and mistrust in German leaders – POLITICO

“Federal authorities are turning over every stone,” said German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
#elections #elonmusk #germany #Refugees #socialmedia #media #rights #security #disinformation #terrorism #platforms #saudiarabia #borders #RobertHabeck #nancyfaeser #peterneumann

https://www.europesays.com/1715255/ Magdeburg attack fuels disinformation and mistrust in German leaders – POLITICO #borders #DISINFORMATION #elections #ElonMusk #germany #media #NancyFaeser #PeterNeumann #Platforms #Refugees #rights #RobertHabeck #SaudiArabia #security #SocialMedia #terrorism
Magdeburg attack fuels disinformation and mistrust in German leaders – POLITICO

Magdeburg attack fuels disinformation and mistrust in German leaders – POLITICO - EUROPE SAYS

“Federal authorities are turning over every stone,” said German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser of the Social Democratic Party
EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
#elections #elonmusk #germany #Refugees #socialmedia #media #rights #security #disinformation #terrorism #platforms #saudiarabia #borders #RobertHabeck #nancyfaeser #peterneumann

»#ElonMusk Is a #PaidSubscriber to Shockingly #Racist #ProApartheid South African X Account.« https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-is-a-paid-subscriber-to-shockingly-racist-pro-apartheid-south-african-x-account/?eicker.media #media #socialmedia

Elon Musk Subscribes to Virulently Racist X Account

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, is a paid subscriber to a virulently racist X account.
Isaac Schorr (Mediaite)
#elonmusk #socialmedia #media #racist #paidsubscriber #proapartheid

Know why #ElonMusk likes space trips and spends a fortune on it @bloomberg @profiles-bloomberg? Guillotines don't work in zero gravity.

He doesnt own us. He's in ABJECT TERROR of his own personal #LuigiMangione showing up. It can't happen soon enough. #DoALuigi. Do it today!
#elonmusk #luigimangione #doaluigi @Bloomberg @profiles-bloomberg

Elon Musk can easily use Donald Trump's greatest advantage against him

#Strategy #Politics #ElonMusk #Business #Innovation

https://www.salon.com/2024/12/24/elon-musk-can-easily-use-donald-greatest-advantage-against-him/

Trump isn't fooling anyone by saying Elon Musk's "not going to be president"

While the president-elect babbles about Panama, Republicans celebrate the Tesla CEO as "our prime minister"
Salon.com
#elonmusk #politics #strategy #innovation #business

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