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I really hope everyone understands what is going on with Elon and Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of our last remaining bastions of evidence-based consensus reality. The MAGA narrative is fundamentally threatened by evidence-based fact, and Wikipedia is a repository of evidence-based fact.

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They want people to give up on fact and trust vibes. Ideally, they'd like us all to look at reality through the lens of AI, which is basically just a service that averages and reconstitutes vibes on any given subject. Wikipedia helps us order and evaluate based on fact. It is a threat.
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If you haven't read, I deeply recommend this article. Apparently his beef started when they refused to call him a founder of Tesla. Just because he didn't actually found Tesla. www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-an...

Elon Musk and the right’s war ...


Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia

The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
Molly White (Citation Needed)
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