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,

Taking aim at Wikipedia co-founders Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, Musk argued that the site had become an extension of left-wing media or the “legacy media”, a term that has been adopted as a derogatory way to refer to traditional media sources by the MAGA movement.

Elon Musk is among a slew of billionaire venture capitalists in tech aiming to "defund" Wikipedia because they believe it is "an extension of legacy media propaganda." Musk was a fan of the open-source platform as recently as January 2021,