In 2021, somewhere near the peak of his pre-political celebrity, Elon Musk tweeted to celebrate a milestone for the web : “Happy birthday Wikipedia! So glad you exist.” His public relationship with the platform had been, up until that point, fairly normal, at least for a controversial public figure. He was an avid consumer, frequently tweeting links on a range of topics. His occasional criticisms of the platform were about how it represented him . “ History is written by the victors,” he wrote in 2020, “except on Wikipedia haha.” A year earlier, he’d complained about his own entry. “Just looked at my wiki for 1st time in years. It’s insane!” he wrote, bemusedly calling his page a “war zone” with “a zillion edits.” In response to a supportive comment, he joked : “Some day, I shoul

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