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| Grokipedia | 4/4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grokipedia | reference | science, encyclopedia | 2026-05-05T09:20:50.100026+00:00 | kb-cron |
==== Towards right-wing views ==== Grokipedia has been described as having a right-wing bias, with The Business Standard noting reviewers finding it framed "contested social and political issues through a right-leaning perspective, echoing Musk's personal views", with some pages accused of whitewashing extremism. Matteo Wong noted in The Atlantic how in the Grokipedia article on Adolf Hitler, his "rapid economic achievements" are prioritized over events like the Holocaust. NBC News stated that while Wikipedia mentions the Holocaust in the first paragraph of the Hitler article, Grokipedia mentions it only after 13,000 words. Wong also states that Grokipedia repeatedly cites Kremlin.ru for its article on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Meduza compared Grokipedia's coverage to that of the Kremlin-aligned Ruwiki, finding that Grokipedia's treatment of the Russo-Ukrainian war was less overtly propagandistic than Ruwiki's, though it did give more favorable treatment to "Russian propaganda talking points" than Wikipedia did. On Vladimir Putin, Grokipedia's coverage was "less fawning" than Ruwiki's, though still omitting noteworthy negative information about him. Meduza noted that Grokipedia also omits mention of scandals surrounding Donald Trump, such as his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Texas-based news site Chron observed that Grokipedia articles often cited "Texas Republican bloggers and advocacy groups", and that Grokipedia's coverage of Texas history tended to minimize the role of slavery. On November 17, 2025, the British newspaper The Guardian published an analysis of Grokipedia finding that entries "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". It described several pages on white nationalists, antisemites and Holocaust deniers "written to portray them in a positive light while casting doubt on the credibility of their critics" and giving favorable accounts of historical far-right figures. It highlighted Grokipedia's praise and defense of Jared Taylor, Kevin MacDonald, Revilo P. Oliver, and William Luther Pierce, such as by describing Pierce's 1978 book The Turner Diaries and its "advocacy for total racial war, rejection of democratic compromise and portrayal of mass extermination as moral imperative" as having merely "drawn scrutiny from institutions prone to framing such texts through lenses of hate rather than analyzing their appeal via first-principles incentives like group survival". A November 2025 article by NBC News noted that Grokipedia used the phrase "advancement of peoples of European descent" in place of terms like "white nationalist". Several entries were described as praising white supremacist or exclusionary communities on the basis of economic performance, such as its entry on Orania in South Africa or Rhodesia, the latter of which stated that: "In retrospect, Rhodesia's era demonstrated effective resource management and institutional stability under constrained minority governance, yielding higher per capita incomes, literacy rates, and life expectancies for the broader population". It labeled critics as having "institutional biases favoring rapid decolonization narratives" that are "prevalent in mainstream academic and media sources". The Agence France-Presse described several right-wing figures as welcoming the site, including Russian far-right philosopher Aleksander Dugin, who praised the Grokipedia article on him, saying it was better than his article on Wikipedia.
=== Response from Wikimedia community members === A spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation commented that "Wikipedia's knowledge is – and always will be – human. [...] This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist". Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales commented that the use of large language models would cause Grokipedia to contain "massive errors". Larry Sanger, a co-founder and noted critic of Wikipedia, noted that the Grokipedia article on himself contained both correct content not found in the corresponding Wikipedia article and hallucinated errors. The Wikipedia community has deprecated Grokipedia as a source, citing issues with verifiability, circular sourcing and copyrighted material.
== See also == List of content forks of Wikipedia – Content forks of the open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia List of online encyclopedias
== References ==
== Further reading == Ditter, Roger (October 30, 2025). "Truth wars: Grokipedia vs. Wikipedia". Deutsche Welle. Hart, Robert (January 31, 2026). "ChatGPT isn't the only chatbot pulling answers from Elon Musk's Grokipedia". The Verge. Retrieved February 1, 2026.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
== External links ==
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