Elon Musk furious after Wikipedia page calls his controversial gesture a ‘Nazi salute’
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‘Defund Wikipedia until [the] balance is restored!’ Musk spouted on his social media platform X. Elon Musk is not happy that his Wikipedia page now refers to the infamous gesture he demonstrated on Monday as a “Nazi Salute”. The billionaire father of 12, called out the online encyclopedia site, on X Tuesday after the gesticulation he made at a rally at the Capital One Arena was referred to as “a Nazi salute or fascist salute” on his Wikipedia page – something the Tesla/X CEO vehemently denies.
Taking aim at Wikipedia co-founders Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, Musk argued that the site had become an extension of left-wing media or the “legacy media”, a term that has been adopted as a derogatory way to refer to traditional media sources by the MAGA movement.
The world’s richest man, who has managed to become part of President Donald Trump’s circle, went on in his diatribe to state: “Defund Wikipedia until [the] balance is restored!”. “I think Elon is unhappy that Wikipedia is not for sale. I hope his campaign to defund us results in lots of donations from people who care about the truth. If Elon wanted to help, he’d be encouraging kind and thoughtful intellectual people he agrees with to engage.”, Wales wrote on X Tuesday.
On Musk’s page, the first mention of the derogatory term “Nazi” does not appear until at least halfway down where he is cited as a propagandist for spreading misinformation and right-wing conspiracy theories, a statement taken from the heavily fact-checked news outlet The Associated Press.
