Backfired on him!
Musk’s call for a boycott drives Wikipedia donations
That probably backfired! Tech billionaire Elon Musk called on people not to donate to the knowledge platform.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen On Christmas Eve, an appeal by Elon Musk on X - formerly Twitter - caused a stir. The tech billionaire called on people to stop donating to Wikipedia.
He criticized the platform for being "too woke". The word means "vigilance" for discrimination and grievances. And the website lacked "editorial balance".
4.4 million dollars in just three days
But instead of a drop in support, Wikipedia experienced a remarkable boom in donations.
While up to 900,000 US dollars a day were received in the days before the appeal, the figures rose to over one million US dollars a day over the Christmas holidays.
In the last three days, the foundation collected a total of 4.4 million US dollars - almost twice as much as in the same periods of the last three years.
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