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Newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani became the centre of an internet debate after a video from his victory speech went viral. In the clip, Mamdani is seen raising his arm several times and waving to supporters.
The tech billionaire launched his alternative to Wikipedia in the name of combating ideological bias, but critics say it has its own biases.
Musk launched Grokipedia, an anti-woke AI caricature of Wikipedia that describes abortion as death and lists “treatment approaches” for being transgender.
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Musk’s Grokipedia Validates His Favorite Conspiracy Theories While Saying Nice Things About Him
Elon Musk used to support Wikipedia, but following his turn to the far right, he is now pushing his 'non-woke' Grokipedia as a superior alternative.
“The impulse to control knowledge is as old as knowledge itself,” said Ryan McGrady, a senior research fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who studies encyclopedias and social media platforms. “Controlling what gets written is a way to gain or keep power.”
Yesterday, Elon Musk’s AI company xAI revealed what it calls Grokipedia: a competitor to Wikipedia, which Musk has criticized for being too “woke.” Except, as The Verge reports, Grokipedia seems to be largely cribbed from Wikipedia, with many entries copied almost word for word from the online encyclopedia that Musk supposedly despises.
Fox News host Jesse Watters pressed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about his tense White House exchange with Elon Musk. In May, The Atlantic reported on the alleged […]
Scott Bessent brushed off allegation that he caught Elon Musk by the collar by saying the Tesla tycoon only 'wore t-shirts'