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This January, the world watched as Los Angeles burned. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” one police chief told reporters, a sentiment echoed by front-line firefighters.

Elon Musk is angry at Wikipedia for reporting on his alleged ‘Nazi salute’. But his attacks are part of a long and troubling history of trying to suppress information he finds inconvenient, writes Io Dodds

‘Given Musk’s actions on Monday, it may be time to rethink how we engage with the platform,’ one subreddit’s moderators wrote after Musk’s inauguration apperance

Laura Ingraham performed a similar gesture at the Republican National Convention in 2016 while speaking in support of Donald Trump

The gesture was controversial enough, but now come the sub-controversies: Elon Musk is trolling Wikipedia and encouraging its defunding after a description of his recent flourish, seen by some as a Hitler salute, appeared on the encyclopedic website.

Elon Musk and a cohort of tech billionaires are rallying together to delegitimize Wikipedia.

Vivian Wilson, who often criticizes her estranged father, has responded to Elon Musk’s controversial gesture at Trump’s inauguration rally

‘Defund Wikipedia until [the] balance is restored!’ Musk spouted on his social media platform X

Meta’s decision to change its content moderation policies by replacing centralized fact-checking teams with user-generated community labeling has stirred up a storm of reactions. But taken at face value, the changes raise the question of the effectiveness of Meta’s old policy, fact-checking, and its new one, community comments.

Control the arbiters of facts and you wield truth itself as a cudgel

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