India, Feb. 27 -- Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has asked Elon Musk to find out which branches of the US government have asked employees to "edit, monitor, update, lobby" the online encyclopedia.

"Such operations should be defunded, if any," Sanger wrote in a post on X. He also added that "if there are none, we'd like to know."

This comes at a time when Musk is heading the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which is aimed at cutting unnecessary spending of the federal government and thus, control the fiscal deficit.

In a separate post, Sanger even asked US President Donald Trump to "use an executive order to make it a policy that neither federal worker hours nor federal moneys may be used to edit Wikipedia or pay for Wik...