Elon Musk Offers $1 Billion To Wikipedia To Change Its Name To Include A Curse Word

Elon Musk offered Wikipedia $1 billion to change its name to “D—ipedia.” 

Musk wrote his proposal on his platform X after he tweeted a screenshot of an appeal from Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, who stated that Wikipedia is “not for sale.”

Musk captioned this post, “😴.”

Musk then replied to the tweet writing, “I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to D—ipedia.” 

Musk added several other posts about the matter including, “(Please add that to the 🐄💩 on my wiki page),” and, “In the interests of accuracy.”

Journalist Ed Krassenstein suggested to Wikipedia that they should take the deal.

“You can always change it back after you collect,” he wrote.

Musk replied to Krassenstein, adding a condition that Wikipedia must keep the change for “one-year minimum. I mean, I’m not a fool lol.” 

Musk has recently criticized Wikipedia, specifically about its Wikimedia Foundation, which raises money for the website. He also has complained about the website’s lack of “objectivity.” 

“Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia,” Musk wrote on Sunday. “You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone! So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know …”

Wales has often been a critic of Musk.

Back in May, he tweeted a statement condemning Musk’s actions in censoring critics of the presidential election in Turkey.

“What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won,” he said in response to Musk. “This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan.”