"Now if, like Musk's own children, you're not a member of the Elon fan club, you can probably imagine why Musk took on this project. Here's a man who purchased Twitter a few years ago specifically to refashion it into a neo-Nazi disinformation machine (check), insinuated himself with the second Trump administration so that he could hollow out the federal government (check), and designed electric cars that spontaneously combust, burning their liberal owners to death (check)."
""The historiographical debate on the intent and functionality of Nazi racial policies, particularly the Holocaust, centers on whether the systematic extermination of Jews was the fulfillment of Adolf Hitler's premeditated master plan or the unintended outcome of bureaucratic radicalization and wartime improvisation." You already know about people who deny that the Holocaust ever happened, so kudos to Grokipedia for introducing, "The Holocaust was real, but also it was just a happy accident!" as a new means of discrediting Jewish history."
Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, an optimized encyclopedia clone that reproduces and alters historical entries. Grokipedia's Adolf Hitler entry includes a new "Debates and Intent on Functionality" section absent from Wikipedia. That section frames the Holocaust as potentially either a premeditated plan or an unintended outcome of bureaucratic radicalization and wartime improvisation. Grokipedia's framing enables narratives that suggest the Holocaust could be accidental, and includes language that undermines Jewish history. A test drive of Grokipedia required consulting Wikipedia and cited news sources to trace authorship, and the provenance of some controversial passages remains unclear.
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