Taking aim at Wikipedia co-founders Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, Musk argued that the site had become an extension of left-wing media or the “legacy media”, a term that has been adopted as a derogatory way to refer to traditional media sources by the MAGA movement.
Elon Musk responds to the criticism over his one-armed gesture during Trump's inauguration which sparked controversy.
Elon Musk appeared to make a fascist gesture during Donald Trump's inauguration, performing what looked almost exactly like a Nazi salute.
Even if Musk did "accidentally" make the Nazi-like salute, multiple neo-Nazis gleefully embraced the gesture at face value as a Sieg Heil, and proclaimed, "We are so back."
“It seems that Elon Musk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute,” the Anti-Defamation League wrote Monday in a statement on Musk’s own social media platform X, referring to Musk’s outstretched-arm movement that came as he was thanking his supporters.
Elon Musk has responded to allegations that he performed a Nazi salute at President Donald Trump 's inauguration, calling it a "dirty trick" by his critics. Musk addressed the controversy on his platform X (formerly Twitter) Monday night, replying to a user: "Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is sooo tired."
Grimes has said she’s “happy to denounce Nazi -ism” after her former partner Elon Musk was accused of giving a “Nazi salute” during an inauguration celebration for Donald Trump.
Elon Musk, the world's richest man, wants the funding of Wikipedia to be stopped. The remarks of the tech mogul came after the online encyclopedia called his controversial gesture a 'Nazi salute'. Musk called on his followers to "defund Wikipedia" after his page on the site was updated to include a reference to his gesture at Trump's post-inauguration speech,
President Donald Trump's close ally, tech billionaire Elon Musk, caused an explosion of controversy on the day of Trump's swearing-in by repeatedly making an arm gesture that social media commentators and historians compared to a Nazi salute.
The founders of Wikipedia said that their site is "not for sale" after Musk lashed out, calling it "an extension of legacy media propaganda"
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, asked Trump's nominee for US Ambassador to the United Nations, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who has said she wants to l