{"id":909875,"date":"2025-02-27T11:23:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T05:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=909875"},"modified":"2025-02-27T11:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T05:53:47","slug":"wikipedia-co-founder-may-just-have-agreed-with-elon-musk-in-his-first-viral-post-in-a-few-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/27\/wikipedia-co-founder-may-just-have-agreed-with-elon-musk-in-his-first-viral-post-in-a-few-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia co-founder may just have agreed with Elon Musk in his \u2018first viral post in a few years\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has been vocal in his criticism of Wikipedia, accusing the platform of bias and even offering $1 billion to rename it &#8220;Dickipedia.&#8221; Amid this controversy, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger asked the Tesla CEO to investigate which branches of the US government have employees who are paid to edit, monitor, update, or lobby on Wikipedia\u2014and suggested that such departments should be defunded.<\/p>\n<p>Hi @ElonMusk. Wikipedia co-founder here. May I ask you to determine what branches of the U.S. government\u2014if any!\u2014have employees paid to edit, monitor, update, lobby, etc., WIkipedia?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has been vocal in his criticism of Wikipedia, accusing the platform of bias and even offering $1 billion to rename it &#8220;Dickipedia.&#8221; Amid this controversy, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger asked the Tesla CEO to investigate which branches of the US government have employees who are paid to edit, monitor, update, or lobby on Wikipedia\u2014and suggested that such departments should be defunded. Hi @ElonMusk. Wikipedia co-founder here. May I ask you to determine what branches of the U.S. government\u2014if any!\u2014have employees paid to edit, monitor, update, lobby, etc., WIkipedia?<\/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-909875","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\/909875","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=909875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}