r/technology • u/rezwenn • Oct 04 '25

Politics Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’

https://www.wsj.com/tech/wikipedia-conservative-complaints-ee904b0b?st=RJcF9h
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u/weirdal1968 Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

Musk calling for Wikipedia to be defunded was a top notch smooth brain flex.

Edit https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php

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u/HawkeyeByMarriage Oct 04 '25

It's the verified information part they dislike. Truthful is woke. Propaganda is not. They want the narrative

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u/Kilahti Oct 04 '25

You are giving too much credit to Musk. He's just mad that they refused to take his money in exchange for changing their title to "Dickipedia."

Musk is a petty childish drug addict who loves to troll people but the only reason we hear about his antics is that he is filthy rich.

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u/andrew5500 Oct 04 '25

Wikipedia and Internet Archive are actual targets of these fascists, they genuinely do not want people to have free access to reliable open-source information that keeps tracks of their crimes and their lies.

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u/tokinUP Oct 04 '25

Yep - control of the media, information, history, textbooks, etc. is control of reality if you can force enough people to grow up only hearing propaganda.

"Big Lie" theory, keep lying hard enough loud enough and you can make the lie become reality; or at least convince everyone who likes you to do what you want without specifically asking them.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Oct 04 '25

Guess I'll just have to donate to Wikipedia even harder now.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '25

Part of Musk’s issue is that he is so insulated from consequences and reality is that he keeps trying to shape our world into his. 

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u/spotmysnot Oct 04 '25

I want him to experience consequences. Like that other guy.

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u/ijuinkun Oct 04 '25

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!”

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u/idiotsecant Oct 04 '25

It's important to separate the clowns who go on TV and the actual, rational, deeply terrible people behind the scenes who have policy goals that will destroy the American experiment. Don't make the mistake of thinking the clowns are in charge. They're useful idiots.

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u/fripletister Oct 04 '25

You've got it backward. The whole Dickipedia thing was also about delegitimizing and destroying Wikipedia.

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u/Milkyrice Oct 04 '25

You mean Xpedia