Published 15:43 IST, August 17th 2020

Elon Musk's Wikipedia page vandalised after he 'begged' netizens to 'trash' him

Elon Musk took to his Twitter handle to beg netizens to trash him on Wikipedia and as good obeying followers, they took upon his request and trolled him.

Reported by: Vishal Tiwari
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Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk on August 16 took to his official Twitter handle to 'beg' netizens to 'trash' him on Wikipedia and as good obeying followers, y took upon his request and trolled him brutally. Netizens flooded Musk's Wikipedia p on Sunday, so much so that volunteers-operated online encyclopedia had to block billionaire's p to prevent it from getting vandalised furr. Elon Musk on Sunday shared two tweets, first, he wrote, "History is written by victors ... except on Wikipedia haha," and in second he begged his followers to trash him on Wikipedia. 

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Netizens roast Elon Musk

"Please trash me on Wikipedia, I’m begging you," Musk tweeted following which netizens flooded his post with hilarious screenshots of edits y did on billionaire's p. tweet went viral in time and has since garnered more than 1,98,000 likes and over 12,000 retweets. One user, edited Musk's p to read, "Elon Reeve Musk is a piece of s**t, engineer, industrial designer, techlogy entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Elon s**ks. He made short sellers lose a lot of money, he won't let anyone try Autopilot rewrite, and Battery Day has been delayed until September 22," to which tech-billionaire replied with 'Tears of Joy' emoji. 

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Ar user edited Musk's p to add rapper in description, while one added that all major wars, diseases, and financial disasters of last century can be directly attributed to X founder. Musk has t yet revealed why he wanted people to trash him on Wikipedia but last year he had questioned accuracy of online encyclopedia. This may well be reason behind him making bizarre request so he could prove that anyone willing to edit information on Wikipedia can do it without any problem. 

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15:44 IST, August 17th 2020