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Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia (www.rollingstone.com)
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[–] LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch 13 points 1 year ago

Summary is missing some context here. The article is an interview with Annie Rauwerda.

Behind the X owner’s trolling is a years long obsession with the internet’s favorite encyclopedia, Depths of Wiki creator Annie Rauwerda tells Rolling Stone

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But much of Musk’s consternation with the popular site appears to be less about its features and more about his inability to control what it says about him. Rauwerda, creator of Depths of Wikipedia, one of the most popular Wikipedia-focused accounts online, tells Rolling Stone that Musk’s focus seems to be coming from a man obsessed with encyclopedias — who’s still unable to bend the world’s most popular one towards his will.