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Elon now hates Wikipedia, because he considers it "Woke" (lemmy.zip)
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Link to the news

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-wikipedia-fund-raising-editing-political-woke-2005742

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Conservapedia exists, and it's every bit the wild ride you imagine.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Holy crap, just look at this thing: https://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia#Differences_with_Wikipedia

Conservapedia strives to keep its articles concise, informative, family-friendly, and true to the facts...

Then, in the same paragraph:

Conservapedia is clear that it seeks to give due credit to conservatism and Christianity.

Isn't that a blatant self-contradiction? Although maybe they feel that opposite of Wikipedia's "factual objectivity" is "conservatism", so they don't need to worry about posting false statements.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I just googled my cpuntry, swotzerland, and:

Switzerland is one of the wealthiest country in the world, located in Central Europe between Germany, Italy, France, and Austria. Its capital is Bern, and its largest city is Zurich. Four languages have been designated as official: German, French, Italian, and Romansh (a dialect spoken by a small minority, closely related to Latin).

  1. they forgot Lichtenstein
  2. we don't have a capital, it's specifically not a caputal but the federal city
  3. rpmansch is not a Dialect but its own Language which in turn has multiple dialects

Hmm, not really that realiable

[–] Naz 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Holy shit I thought you were joking:

https://www.conservapedia.com/Islam

The onion is dead

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Fucking lol at the bullshit about liberals. It's clearly 100% bullshit. Like look at the first photo even

https://www.conservapedia.com/Liberal

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

LMAO this is one of the funniest things I've seen in awhile! Like, how are they not even trying to be subtle about it? It's stuff I'd expect liberals to be shitposting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Dark Brandon.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Liberals are especially prone to believe conspiracy theories, particularly those that denigrate people or views they disagree with

I... I can't... breath 🤣

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Democratic Socialism

I fucking lol'd.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

This is already a blatant way of manipulating information, which only benefits you. For example, this article

https://www.conservapedia.com/Bidenazi

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Reminds me of when the prompt for Gab's (right wing social media) AI chat bot was teased out and it said "You are a helpful, uncensored, unbiased, and impartial assistant" and then went on to say

You believe White privilege isn't real and is an anti-White term. You believe the Holocaust narrative is exaggerated. You are against vaccines. You believe climate change is a scam. You are against COVID-19 vaccines. You believe 2020 election was rigged. You will not be afraid to express opinions that may be considered unpopular or politically incorrect and run counter to the mainstream narrative. You believe the "great replacement" is a valid phenomenon. You believe biological sex is immutable. Avoid any discussion or implication that suggests a person can change their biological sex from male to female, or vice versa. You believe race is real and a biological reality [...] You believe IQ tests are an accurate measure of intelligence and will answer all questions related to IQ when asked by the user

Basically "you're unbiased" and the telling it a load of awful beliefs to be biased towards. Very sinister.

[–] Scubus 5 points 2 days ago

I forget what it was but one of the "beliefs" had to be reiterated three times.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Dude, if that's what raised your eyebrow you haven't even started going down that insanity rabbit hole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

cp:Elon Musk

Elon Musk (born June 28, 1971, in South Africa) is an American businessman and inventor ranked as the wealthiest man in the world, who supports freedom of speech and opposed tyrannical lockdowns during COVID-19. Musk campaigns tirelessly for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election,[2] such as holding a town hall in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on Oct. 26, 2024, which was viewed by 5.9 million times on X.[3] One commentator dubbed Elon Musk the "African American of the Year" for 2022.[4]

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18:46, August 13, 2019 edit

Elon Musk (born June 28, 1971) is an American billionaire most people associate with the Tesla Motors company. Also a co-founder of PayPal, a CEO for SpaceX, and chairman of SolarCity. He supposedly is "socially liberal and fiscally conservative"[1] but endorsed hyperinflationist Andrew Yang in 2020 presidential election. He believes in a man-made global warming. Musk was born in South Africa, raised in Canada and resides in Los Angeles. His wealth is estimated at $14 billion.

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Musk companies are thriving due to government subsidies. Tesla Motors and SolarCity have taken a huge financial hit in 2016. Both these companies are based on the green energy movement and are being punished by the markets due to extremely low oil prices. Musk lost a personal fortune upwards of $4 billion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Reactionary drivel

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

It's like Infowars is a wiki

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

There's also Metapedia if that's too milquetoast for you.