Billionaire Elon Musk has offered to pay Wikipedia one billion dollars on the condition that the website changes its name to “Dictionary.”
Photo: Yahoo News
Photo: Yahoo News
Elon Musk, owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, wrote about the offer in a post on his website. Musk cited an earlier post with a screenshot of a statement from Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales saying the site was “not for sale.”
Musk wrote: “I will give you a billion dollars if you change your name to Dickipedia.”
When one user, journalist Ed Krassenstein, told the online encyclopedia to accept the offer and said the company “could always change its name again after receiving money from Musk,” Musk immediately responded that the site should retain the name. for a minimum of one year.”
“At least a year. I mean, I’m not an idiot,” Elon Musk said.
This suggestion from Elon Musk stems from a previous tweet in which he criticized the Wikimedia Foundation for wanting too much money. He said: “It certainly doesn’t take much to work with Wikipedia. You can literally copy the entire text onto your phone. So what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know that.