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Yesterday, the Hill ran a wonderfully encouraging story headlined, “Musk says xAI building ‘Grokipedia’ after criticizing Wikipedia.” Wikipedia, which tragically had originally showed so much promise, has long been hollowed out by leftists. For example, Wikipedia’s first paragraph about Charlie Kirk’s political positions cites the Southern Poverty Law Center calling Charlie’s “rhetoric divisive, racist, xenophobic, and extreme.” A reckoning is long overdue.

“We are building Grokipedia @xAI,” Musk said on X Tuesday. “Will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia. Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe.”

Wikipedia is often described as “the largest written collection of knowledge in human history.” Hopefully not for much longer.

There wasn’t much in the way of tangible news, and so the story falls squarely into the “somebody said something” category. But still. Musk, after all, is the world’s richest man and, whatever else you might think about the space billionaire, has done more to protect free speech than anyone alive. He literally paid $48 billion to buy X and save it —and the rest of us— from censorship, even though every major advertiser bailed the next day.

Musk has recently heaped well-deserved criticism on the free online encyclopedia and called it “hopelessly biased.” One of its two founders, Larry Sanger, 57, now calls the platform “completely corrupted.” Daily Mail headline, yesterday:

Wikipedia co-founder says online
encyclopedia has been completely
corrupted by woke ideology
By KELLY GARINO, US REPORTER

As one recent example from the Mail’s article, Wikipedia’s elite editors first attempted to delete the entry on Iryna Zarutska’s brutal murder on the grounds it was insufficiently newsworthy. After backlash forced them to restore the entry, they edited out the killer’s name and all references to his race and the racial motivation for Iryna’s killing. They even argued about whether to call it a “murder,” as though the Ukrainian refugee might’ve been killed in a tragic railway accident or as though her cause of death remains forever mysterious, like covid jab victims.

Wikipedia is managed by a loose group of 62 administrative editors. Only one-fifth of them use their real names; the rest remain anonymous. They are super woke. Wikipedia’s co-founder Sanger coined the helpful term GASP to describe the editorial group: Globalist, Academic, Secular, and Progressive.

Not much substance is known about Musk’s proposed replacement apart from a few posts by his development team hinting that objective truth is the highest priority for knowledge, a terrifying prospect that fills progressives’ hearts with fear. Despite the lack of technical details or any launch date, the announcement flooded the tech media with straight news, and filled corporate media with hastily written op-eds decrying Musk’s search for truth as anti-democratic.

In other words, progressives feel that people should get to vote on the truth, unless the vote goes the wrong way, in which case: mandates.

https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-larry-sanger

Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: CIA Infiltration, Banning Conservatives, & How to Fix the Internet

Larry Sanger built Wikipedia as an unbiased repository of the world’s knowledge, and then stood helplessly by as activists and intel agencies turned it into the most comprehensive propaganda op in human history. There’s nothing more corrupt.

Tuqar asked Sanger about Israel on Wikipedia (the site has been 110% pro-Arab for at least a decade) and got the opposite answer he wanted.

Tuqar stumbled and quickly moved on, not wanting to explore that issue further, lest his investors be upset.

It's wild to read Wikipedia articles from the 2000s and compare them to today, far less balanced across the board.

Larry Sanger - appeal for information - potential class lawsuit

Please help me collect names of living people (or enterprises) who have been defamed or outrageously treated by Wikipedia. Add names below. This is important, trust me, so if you want to help, this is the time.

https://x.com/lsanger/status/1976351976427598169

@JohnStossel
I once reported on how great Wikipedia was.

Now, it’s FULL of propaganda.

That’s a big problem because its bad information corrupts AI and search results:

How Wikipedia Got Captured
I once reported how great Wikipedia is. But now, it’s manipulated by leftists.

That’s a big problem because its bad information corrupts AI and search results.
https://x.com/JohnStossel/status/1998429180292452659

Video at the link