Elon Musk offers Wikipedia $1 billion to change their name to THIS
Elon Musk has offered Wikipedia $1 billion if they changed their name to something crude for one year “minimum”.
Elon Musk has offered Wikipedia $1 billion if they changed their name to something crude for one year “minimum”.
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The South Africa-born billionaire took to his social media site X – formerly Twitter – to offer the open-collaborative online encyclopedia megabucks, but the catch is they’d have to change their name to ‘Dickipedia’
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The Tesla and SpaceX owner wrote: “I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia.”
I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia https://t.co/wxoHQdRICy
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 22, 2023
When one user pointed out that they could change the name back after they banked the cash, he replied: “One year minimum. I mean, I’m a not fool lol.”
In 2019, Musk, now 52, asked Wikipedia to remove the word “investor” from his page.
Musk, who was spotted watching Sunday’s United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, claimed that he does “basically zero investing” which is why he asked the owners of the site to remove the false fact.
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He tweeted at the time: “Just looked at my wiki for 1st time in years. It’s insane! Btw, can someone please delete “investor”. I do basically zero investing. (sic)”
And his profile was soon updated with the term “business magnet”, “as requested by Elon Musk”.
It currently reads: “Elon Reeve Musk is a business magnate and investor. Musk is the founder, chairman, CEO and chief technology officer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, product architect and former chairman of Tesla, Inc.; owner, chairman and CTO of X Corp.; founder of the Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the Musk Foundation.”
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Musk, who was born in Pretoria in South Africa, is the world’s richest man.
He has seen his fortune skyrocket by $66.4 billion this year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
His total net worth is a reported $204 billion, some $51 billion more than French LVMH chairperson Bernard Arnault in second place ($153 billion).