Musk’s “Doge” Past and Grokipedia Present: A Timeline of Right-Wing Alignment

Elon Musk’s launch of Grokipedia, a right-wing AI encyclopedia, is the latest in a series of moves aligning him with conservative politics. This follows his temporary service earlier this year as the head of the Trump administration’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge).
Musk, who an August Gallup poll found to be the most disliked public figure in the U.S., is now trying to reshape public information with Grokipedia. The project, suggested by Trump’s former AI czar David Sacks, is an explicit rival to Wikipedia.
The new encyclopedia replaces Wikipedia’s human volunteer editors with Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, which serves as the sole “fact-checker.” Musk has long attacked Wikipedia for citing “mainstream media,” and Grokipedia is his biased alternative.
The platform’s content promotes conservative narratives. Its entry on the January 6 Capitol riot, for example, includes the debunked lie of “widespread claims of voting irregularities” and downplays the attack’s severity.
The AI-only model is also proving to be factually unreliable. Critics have already pointed to significant errors, such as a false claim that pornography exacerbated the Aids epidemic, calling the entire project’s credibility into question.