White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
by Jason Wilson from Technology | The Guardian on (#71H3W)
World's richest person wanted to purge' propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
Entries in Elon Musk's new online encyclopedia variously promote white nationalist talking points, praise neo-Nazis and other far-right figures, promote racist ideologies and white supremacist regimes, and attempt to revive concepts and approaches historically associated with scientific racism, a Guardian analysis has found.
The tech billionaire and Donald Trump ally recently launched xAI's AI-generated Grokipedia with a promise that it would purge out the propaganda" he claims infests Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that Musk has often attacked but that has long been a key feature of the internet.
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