--- title: "Elon Musk Is Not Beating the Allegations: Grokipedia Cites a Hardcore Nazi Website 42 Times" description: "A new analysis of AI-generated ripoff of Wikipedia, \"Grokipedia,\" found that it cites the neo-Nazi forum Stormfront 42 times." date: "2025-11-21" modified: "2025-11-21" authors: - name: "Frank Landymore" job_title: "Contributing Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/flandymore" url: "https://futurism.com/future-society/grokipedia-nazi" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" - "xAI" --- # Elon Musk Is Not Beating the Allegations: Grokipedia Cites a Hardcore Nazi Website 42 Times ![A new analysis of AI-generated ripoff of Wikipedia, "Grokipedia," found that it cites the neo-Nazi forum Stormfront 42 times.]() *Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images* Elon Musk has vigorously [denied being a Nazi]() ever since he performed two straight-armed salutes that were [widely interpreted as Sieg Heils]() earlier this year. Since then, he hasn't given critics much reason to give him the benefit of the doubt. His chatbot Grok has praised Nazis and called itself "[MechaHitler]()." He frequently shares racist conspiracy theories and amplifies far right accounts on his website X, formerly Twitter. He has [expressed agreement with actual Nazi apologists](). He publicly supported the German far right party AfD, and at one point [appeared at one of its rallies](), where he effectively said Germany should get over its guilt for the Holocaust. The list goes on and on. Seriously: it never stops. Now, a new [analysis]() of Musk's anti-woke, AI-generated ripoff of Wikipedia, "[Grokipedia]()," found that it cites the infamous neo-Nazi forum Stormfront as a source of information *42 times*, [*NBC News* reports](). As it turns out, Stormfront isn't even Grokipedia's favorite cesspool of hate. The online encyclopedia, [written by Musk's AI chatbot Grok](), also cites the white nationalist website VDARE an even more outrageous *107 times.* (The site's name, by the way, is a reference to an English settler who lived in the infamous Roanoke Colony, all the inhabitants of which mysteriously vanished, [symbolizing]() the site's paranoid fear that white Americans will be replaced by non-white immigrants.) Other Grokipedia luminaries include the far-right crank hub Infowars, which is cited 34 times. No need to explain why this one's a bad choice, too: the site's founder, Alex Jones, was ordered to pay $1.5 billion to the families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting after spreading claims that it was a hoax. In sum, it's all staggeringly reckless, even by Musk's continuously plunging standards. "The guardrails are off," report coauthor Harold Triedman, a Cornell University computer science graduate, told *NBC News*. "The publicly determined, community-oriented rules that try to maintain Wikipedia as a comprehensive, reliable, human-generated source are not in application on Grokipedia." Full disclosure, per *NBC*: Triedman is a former senior privacy engineer for the Wikimedia Foundation, which maintains Wikipedia, and is a part-time contractor with one of its affiliates. Things look even worse when you see *how* these white supremacists are being cited. In an article about the 1998 film "American History X," which is about a neo-Nazi who goes to prison, Grokipedia cites and links to Stormfront six times, drawing on its users' views on the movie. And in an article about the now-disbanded neo-Nazi group called National Vanguard, Grokipedia links to Stormfront seven times. It's also rife with euphemisms like "advancement of peoples of European descent," instead of using terms like "white nationalist." For the record, Wikipedia doesn't allow citing these websites at all, not even as primary source for detailing these extremists views. Instead, to uphold its stance of neutrality, it relies only on second-hand sources and existing scholarships. Grokipedia, meanwhile, is simply "fact-checked by Grok" and edited by a team at xAI whose operations remain opaque to the public. **More on Elon Musk:** [*The Way Grok Describes Elon Musk’s Intellect and Athletic Prowess May Cause You to Doubt the Incredible Power of AI*]() ## Author At Futurism, my work has often centered on bringing a sense of clarity and insight to complex topics ranging from the regulation of emerging technologies to the esoteric ideologies of Silicon Valley executives, while striving not to lose the poetic sense of awe inspired by often-obscure fields like astrophysics and quantum computing. I broke the story of CNET using AI to produce articles that turned out to be riddled with factual errors and plagiarism — a dam-breaking inflection point, as I've reported, that's inspired copycats and endless discourse while beguiling stakeholders ranging from tech giants to purveyors of spam around the web. My work at Futurism has been cited by publications including CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, Vice, Gizmodo, Engadget, the Verge, and Vanity Fair. I grew up in locales ranging from India to China, and now live in the exotic suburbs of Virginia. In my free time, I'm an avid reader of weird sci-fi literature, an aficionado of East Asian cinema, and, regrettably, a relapsed gamer. Allegedly, I’m working on a debut novel, currently untitled. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()