What does Elon Musk want the world to know about "white genocide theory"? Because he's been vocal about the issue in the past-- advancing the idea, for example, that Jews are pushing "hatred against whites"--I decided to search for the term on Grokipedia, the competitor to Wikipedia that Musk launched yesterday. First, the site uses just that term,, rather than, as you would see on Wikipedia and elsewhere. Just a few sentences in, Grokipedia provides the "empirical underpinnings" of this supposed campaign to eliminate white people of European descent around the world. And the site argues that conversation about this purported genocide is systematically suppressed by the media and academia, which are "prone to ideological biases favoring multiculturalism" and "relegate the theory to fringe conspiracy status despite the observable data on population trajectories."

The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people. On Monday, Elon Musk's xAI startup launched Grokipedia, which the billionaire is pitching as an AI-generated alternative to the crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia. Musk first announced the project in late September on his social media platform X, saying it would be "a massive improvement over Wikipedia," and "a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe." Musk said last week that he had delayed the launch of Grokipedia because his team needed "to do more work to purge out the propaganda." When Grokipedia eventually dropped on Monday, WIRED was initially unable to access the website and received an automated message that it was blocked.