{"id":906882,"date":"2025-02-18T11:11:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T05:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=906882"},"modified":"2025-02-18T11:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T05:41:39","slug":"elon-musks-reminder-to-wikipedia-1-billion-offer-for-name-change-to-still-stands-come-on-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/18\/elon-musks-reminder-to-wikipedia-1-billion-offer-for-name-change-to-still-stands-come-on-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s &#8216;reminder&#8217; to Wikipedia: $1 billion offer for name change to &#8230; still stands; come on, do &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has reiterated his $1 billion name change offer to Wikipedia. In a series of Tweets, Elon Musk said that he still stands by his offer to give $1 billion to Wikipedia if it changes its name. Elon Musk said the same in response to a Tweet from a Twitter user going by the name John&#8217;s Memes. &#8220;Does this offer still stand @elonmusk?,&#8221; the post from John&#8217;s Memes said. To this, Elon Musk responded: &#8220;Offer still stands. Come on, do it \u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The tweet shared a screenshot of Elon Musk&#8217;s old tweet that said, &#8220;I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia.&#8221; To rewind, in October 2023, Elon Musk had offered Wikipedia $1 billion only if it changed its name to &#8220;Dickipedia&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has reiterated his $1 billion name change offer to Wikipedia. In a series of Tweets, Elon Musk said that he still stands by his offer to give $1 billion to Wikipedia if it changes its name. Elon Musk said the same in response to a Tweet from a Twitter user going by the name John&#8217;s Memes. &#8220;Does this offer still stand @elonmusk?,&#8221; the post from John&#8217;s Memes said. To this, Elon Musk responded: &#8220;Offer still stands. Come on, do it \u2026&#8221; The tweet shared a screenshot of Elon Musk&#8217;s old tweet that said, &#8220;I will give them a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}