After Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk encouraged the people to “trash” him on the site Wikipedia Page has been locked out for edit. Plenty of his followers decided to accept his offer, it a quite surprising matter.
“History is written by the victors … except on Wikipedia,” Musk tweeted on Sunday.
Musk told his 37 million followers to come and “trash” him on the site in the following tweet, which allowed everyone to edit his page.
Please trash me on Wikipedia, I’m begging you
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 16, 2020
“All major wars, diseases and financial disasters of the last century can be directly attributed to Mr Musk or one of his companies,” one user edited the page. He even tagged Elon Musk with a screenshot on Twitter, Elon Musk replied with a laughing face emoji.
🤣🤣
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 16, 2020
Other edits are as follows
Didn’t know you were a rapper?? pic.twitter.com/liGza0ryWC
— Kawber (@KawberYT) August 16, 2020
Wikipedia quickly locked the Musk’s Wikipedia page, which restricts changes to the website editors alone. A note appeared that the page is now “protected to prevent vandalism” for those still trying to modify, which left many of Musk’s supporters slightly disappointed.
No can do 😭😢They got your all locked down ⛓ 🔒 pic.twitter.com/GXokCHAUPm
— Jim Hall 🚀✨ (@jhall) August 16, 2020
Reference: RT
