Elon Musk Wants What He Can’t Have: Wikipedia - The Atlantic

archive.today webpage capture Saved from history←priornext→ 4 Apr 2025 14:52:51 UTC All snapshots from host www.theatlantic.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuse SKIP TO CONTENT Site Navigation Popular Latest Newsletters Sign In Subscribe TECHNOLOGY ELON MUSK WANTS WHAT HE CAN’T HAVE: WIKIPEDIA Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they succeed? By Lila Shroff Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. FEBRUARY 5, 2025 SHARE SAVE Listen - 1.0x + 0:00 10:16 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. A recent target in Elon Musk’s long and eminently tweetable list of grievances: the existence of the world’s most famous encyclopedia. Musk’s latest attack—“Defund Wikipedia until balance is restored!” he posted on X last month—c

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