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Personal grievances While these days Musk frames his crusade against Wikipedia as a principled stand against bias, the timeline of his complaints reveals a more personal motivation. His earliest grievances targeted his own Wikipedia biography, which accurately but much to his chagrin describes him as an “early investor” in Tesla rather than a founder.31h He’s also complained about the Tesla article, which he gripes “glorif[ies]” one of Tesla’s actual founders.32 He has repeatedly claimed his Wikipedia article was written by his “enemies”,3334 and has joined his fans’ complaints about the portion of his Wikipedia page outlining his role in spreading misinformation, bigotry, and conspiracy theories, agreeing with one who suggested “someone paid to have this written”.35 He has boasted so often363738 that has has not tried to “curate” his Wikipedia biography (by which he seems to mean edit it himself, or pay someone to do so on his behalf) that I wonder if he doth protest too much. (As a very highly-watched Wikipedia page, attempts by Musk or his lackeys to insert false or unverifiable portions of the autohagiography he repeats elsewhere would likely meet considerable resistance, as demonstrated by the battles between Musk fanboys — hired or otherwise — and Wikipedia editors that rage in the edit history and talk page.) This grandstanding rings hollow given his track record: when faced with unfavorable coverage elsewhere, Musk has shown no hesitation to exert direct control thro