Elon Musk created a Wikipedia competitor. What could go wrong?

A man holds up a cardboard cutout of Elon Musk during a protest against a visit by President Donald Trump to the UK on September 17, 2025. Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s attempt at creating an alternative to Wikipedia, is now live. Early analysis suggests that the site — powered by Musk’s xAI and fact-checked by Grok, the company’s right-leaning AI assistant — is already a sort of self-sustaining nuclear reaction of misinformation. More than anything, though, Grokipedia represents another front of Musk’s war on wokeness and another example of Musk taking a thing that works — in this case, Wi