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Trying to sow confusion amongst sources of truth. It fails again and again.

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[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The reason why Wikipedia is "woke" is because editors are smart, educated and not paid by massive corporations.

If you want to un-woke it, just get kids to write it, or Republicans (just don't put the Republicans in a room with the kids)

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 2 hours ago

I mean, you can download the whole thing at any time. Anyone can, including nasty cunts.

The tricky part is training it to forget all those pesky facts he doesn't like. Because there's going to be a lot of them.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

It should be called: The truth according to a pedofile South African apartheid Nazi that grifted a trillion dollars from the American taxpayer and should be writing this from the prison general population

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Just call it what it is. Plagiarism.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

Exactly what Microsoft did with Bing when Google Search took over.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Can he just stop his bs, let other people run his stuff and he can be at home in a k-hole pissing himself?

What is all this? The paypig paid, now they don't need him anymore. Go home Elton

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

No shit, that fat turd hasn't had an original thought in his life

[–] prototact@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I posted somewhere almost a year ago he was planning to rewrite Wikipedia using grok and some people commented that I was being paranoid. In before he takes down the official Wikipedia after grok finishes digesting it in a satisfactory manner. I mean the trump government will find some way to ban Wikipedia, I bet China is already lending expertise on how to state-control the American internet

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 31 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Wikipedia is one of the few treasures of the internet. He can go fuck himself

[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago

Along with the internet archive

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't even get how xitter stays online. Didn't truth social take all their nutters?

[–] Sprawl@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Unfortunately the media, celebrities, and corporations still use that crap, so others do too.

[–] prototact@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

Actually mainstream institutions still use it, including politicians. It's beyond me how complacent elected officials are.

[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

never once used it, anyone i knew personally who used it was kind of vapid, self obsessed, or had a crippling only fans addiction.

not my kind of joint, lol.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

I made an account to stake out my name but never really used it. given the musk takeover though anyone with some cash can get whatever they want on their account.

[–] whiwake@sh.itjust.works 80 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cribbing means… ripping off? Copying?

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yep, did they not call a piece of paper you could copy off of during a test a crib sheet where you went to school? Or has that fallen out of use?

[–] whiwake@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 day ago (18 children)

This is the first time I’m hearing it. I’m not exactly young…

[–] mormund@feddit.org 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Friendly reminder that not everyone is American or in the anglosphere in general.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm not sure that's an American thing as I've never heard of it. I assumed it was a European thing.

[–] mormund@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Well, a UK thing maybe. In German it would obviously be a Spickzettel and spicken, respectively.

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Yeah, that’s why I asked. I didn’t want to assume

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Nope, we called that a cheat sheet in Australia.

Likewise for copying, we called that copying.

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[–] Thorry@feddit.org 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well I'm going to start my own Wikipedia, with blackjack and hookers!

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

And ketamine?

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 7 points 1 day ago

Enshittification incarnate

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago

Man Goebbels would be creaming his jeans if he knew of the propaganda potential that Musk and Trump have at their disposal.

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I don't understand what exact problem Grokipedia ^[1]^ is even trying to solve.

References

  1. Type: Text. Publisher: [Type: Article. Title: "Elon Musk's version of Wikipedia is 'cribbing' information from the real one: report". Author: "Robert Davis". Publisher: "Raw Story Media, Inc.". Published: 2025-10-27T22:23-05:00. Accessed: 2025-10-28T02:57Z. URI: https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-2674238153/.]. Location: ¶1.

    […]"Grokipedia"[…]

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 93 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The 'problem' where Wikipedia doesn't allow conservatives to edit in propaganda and disinformation as much as they'd like.

[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, this exactly. It's really hard to find actually credible sources for many of the rightwing "facts" they want to publish.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you mean? There are literally thousands of memes on Facebook, that back up every single claim. How is that not enough for you people? /s

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You joke but their goal is to replace every institution with a ministry of truth. They've done it with the media, they're doing it with government institutions that used to be independent and evidence based, and they won't stop until they control all information.

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Reality. They don't like reality.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (4 children)

There is already the Conservapedia doing the same thing. It allows YouTube and Twitter as sources. I once saw a sentence like "liberals believe _______" and the source was a tweet with like 40 likes.

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

There is already the Conservapedia doing the same thing. […]

Interestingly, the site is timing out for me right now ^[1]^, but I've been able to find some interesting archived information: for example, they have a page titled "Conservapedia:How Conservapedia Differs from Wikipedia" ^[2]^. To say the least, I take issue with some of their rationale.

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  1. Type: Anecdote (Screenshot). Accessed: 2025-10-29T03:51Z.

  2. Type: Archive (Webpage). Title: "https://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:How_Conservapedia_Differs_from_Wikipedia". Publisher: "Internet Archive". Published: 2025-08-06T17:43:23. Accessed: 2025-10-28T03:56Z. URI: https://web.archive.org/web/20250806174323/https://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:How_Conservapedia_Differs_from_Wikipedia#expand.
    • Type: Meta. Published: 2025-10-29T03:57Z.
      • This is presumed to be an official page as it was linked to from Conservapedia's about page ^[3]^.
  3. Type: Archive (Webpage). Title: "https://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:About". Publisher: "Internet Archive". Published: 2025-09-09T00:19:42. Accessed: 2025-10-19T03:59Z. URI: https://web.archive.org/web/20250909001942/https://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:About.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Years ago I saw a page on that site about irrational numbers that was pure comedy. Basically they begrudgingly admit that irrational numbers might actually exist (whatever that means for numbers), but heavily implied that it's a liberal plot of some kind stemming from moral relativism or whatever. Just insane ramblings.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

It's gotten to the point where now if someone links to YouTube, I'll think they're more likely to be wrong than if they just asserted it with no link. Because if it was true, it would probably have a better source.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Billionaires gonna plunder.

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