Elon Musk, the head of Tesla and X, formerly Twitter, is up to his old tricks again, picking a strange public fight with Wikipedia in the wake of a difficult week. The executive has offered the online encyclopedia $1 billion to change its name to Dickipedia. The offer appears to have been prompted by Musk's exasperation with the website's call for donations, about which he tweeted on Sunday, October 22. At 10:30 a.m.
While all of this might make Musk appear somewhat unserious, it could actually work in his favor. This barrage of attention-grabbing posts comes on the heels of, and might serve as a distraction from, a week of unfavorable news for the CEO. His other company, Tesla, whose stocks have made him the richest man on earth and allowed him to buy Twitter, had a difficult earnings call last week.