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, billionaire Elon Musk has now offered to give one billion dollars to Wikipedia — but that billion would come at a high, and very dumb, price.Musk implied that the Wikimedia Foundation, or the operating nonprofit body that supports Wikipedia, is being shady about its own finances.in a separate thread, alleging that "it certainly isn't needed to operate Wikipedia.
Though Musk seemingly thinks otherwise, running a massive platform like Wikipedia, which is open-access and free to anyone online, is no small feat.
According to Wikimedia, the rest of its budget goes to supporting its large community of writers, editors, and other volunteers, as well as administrative tasks and further fundraising efforts, as Wikipedia remains ad-free and donation-funded.about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, by request of Turkey's censorship-happy government itself, a decision that seemed to fly in the face of the "free speech absolutism" that Musk claims to subscribe to.
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