Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times, researchers say

[highplainsdem]

Source: NBC

Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s online encyclopedia, Grokipedia, cites the neo-Nazi website Stormfront as a source 42 times and relies on other websites that experts have shunned as unreliable or hate-filled, according to an analysis by two researchers at Cornell University.

Grokipedia, which Musk launched last month as a competitor to what he called the “woke” Wikipedia, also cites the conspiracy theory website Infowars as a source 34 times and the white nationalist website VDare 107 times, the researchers found.

Those citations make up a small percentage of Grokipedia’s overall sourcing, but they are notable because Wikipedia, by contrast, does not treat those sources as credible. Wikipedia generally does not allow contributors to use them as references, even as primary sources of information about racist ideas or conspiracy theories, according to the Cornell analysis and Wikipedia’s public list of English-language sources.

“The guardrails are off,” Harold Triedman, one of the paper’s co-authors and a computer science graduate student at Cornell, said in a phone interview Wednesday.

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[erronis]

1. The musk rat shows his true colors.

Along with the artificial injection of hitler-shit into search results a few months ago.

If there's a Doctor Strangelove II, the muskrat would a perfect match.

[Martin68]

2. Sounds like it is about as useful as Conservapedia.

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Depends on the topic, but those sites have appeared here too.

Conspiracy theories always bring out the worst in people.