X, formerly Twitter, has launched a Wikipedia competitor called Grokipedia. It is meant to be an AI-powered encyclopedia without the baggage of Wikipedia. Elon Musk says that it is “fully open source, so anyone can use it for anything at no cost.” As of this writing, it has a little over 800,000 articles but they are mostly a mirror of Wikipedia. The date of this launch is notable because it is three years to the day after Musk bought Twitter. And how is that going? Well, X was an important stalwart for free speech during the 2024 election but lately X has come under fire for being co-opted. In fact, Musk acknowledged that the algorithm on X has been manipulated but, don’t worry, he says, it’s fixed now. He said that this had been due to a “bug.” This is anecdotal but that “bug” fed me non-stop pro-Israel politicians and pundits, including posts like this from Ted Cruz who I detest and do not follow. The timing of this is strange because the “bug” showed up right after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of influencers that he wanted exactly this to happen on X. Musk did not specify what had been fixed but he acknowledged that users had been “seeing far fewer posts from people that they follow.” He added that X would add a new setting in the Following feed to either see everything or only highlights. Again, this is anecdotal, but it does feel like some of the faucet was turned back on but… we’ll see. You know, those pesky political manipulation bugs. You just never know where they come from! The post Grokipedia Arrives Amid X Algorithm ‘Bugs’ appeared first on Redacted.