Oct 28, 2025
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Elon Musk and his company xi launched GKOKIDEDIA on Tuesday, presented as a competitor to Wikipedia Encyclopedia Online, which some Republicans in the United States ...
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Elon Musk and his company xAI this Tuesday launched Grokipedia, a rival to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which some US Republicans accuse of ideological bias.The first version, numbered 0.1, had more than 885,000 articles as of this Tuesday morning, out of the more than 7 million articles in English that Wikipedia has.
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Like many Repiclan leaders, Musk has criticized Wikipedia for years. In 2024, he said that the website was "controlled by left-wing activists" and asked for donations and contributions from the platform to stop the platform.
"The goal of Grok and Grokpedia is the truth, the absolute truth, never the truth."He also said that people can use it for free.
The content of some GrokIkIdia articles shows that it was a demonstration, as can be seen on the page dedicated to Elon Musk himself.In the first paragraphs of the summary, the platform shows that the director of Tesla and Spacex "influences the debate" on various topics, which shows the left-wing culture,
Concerning the black life of the civil rights movement, Grokecedia writes that it "has mobilized millions."The encyclopedia goes on to say, "These demonstrations have led to the most costly (...) riots in history, property damage insurance," most of the demonstrations in 2020 were peaceful. "
Another example is a page dedicated to conservative commentator Tucker Carlson "in exposing the role of traditional journalism in exposing systemic biases."The entry refers to an article in Newsweek magazine in which these biases are endorsed only in quotes from Carlson himself.
Founded in 2001, Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia that is heavily funded by donations of pages that can be written online, pages that can be written by Internet users.The foundation claims a "neutral point of view" in its content.
On the other hand, Grokipedia content, and artificial intelligence (AI) production with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), also lists several sources on each page.
In April, Ed Martin, the federal attorney in Washington at the time (who replaced him), requested documents from the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia, to determine whether it was actually allowed to enjoy the foundation tax exemption.
The prosecutor appointed by Donald Trump accused Wikipedia of "manipulating information" and "hiding propaganda".
In late August, two Republican representatives in the House of Representatives, James Comer and Nancy Mays, launched an investigation into alleged organized maneuvers to influence American public opinion by altering Wikipedia articles.
The birth of Grokipedia was celebrated by several figures on the right, including Russian ultra-nationalist ideologue Aleksandr Dugin, who described the article dedicated to Grokipedia as "neutral, objective and fair", while the Wikipedia article he said was "defamatory".
