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,

January 21, 2025 Responding to Elon Musk’s rambling, Jimmy Wales quipped on X/Twitter I think Elon is unhappy that Wikipedia is not for sale. I hope his campaign to defund us results in lots of donations from people who care about the truth.

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.

The founders of Wikipedia said that their site is "not for sale" after Musk lashed out, calling it "an extension of legacy media propaganda"