Hard to interpret this as something other than using our taxpayer funds to educate his minions. https://t.co/5LXs375p3k

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) https://twitter.com/DataRepublican/status/1973795457219588546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Responding to Pounds' thread, X user https://x.com/labtechleigh/status/1973821568087478398

suggested that Wikipedia's omission of the Soros Foundation from the Muskie Fellowship program entry may be linked to Soros-backed pass-through grants to the Wikimedia Foundation.

Marcotte explained:

Wikipedia may omit Soros from search results because Tides, an OSF pass-through, grants funds to the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates

Wikipedia and related projects like Wikimedia Commons and Wiktionary. Wikimedia provides infrastructure, funding, and support to keep Wikipedia free and accessible.

Per its 2023 Form 990, Tides Advocacy awarded $3,176,116 to Wikimedia Foundation for general support.

This may explain why Grok increasingly makes errors when fact-checking conservatives' posts on Soros funding

For context, the Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that operates and supports Wikipedia and other projects.

Marcotte's post was even read by Elon Musk, who replied, "Noted."

Noted

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1973897764703801376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Earlier this week, Muk revealed plans to launch "https://www.zerohedge.com/political/musk-unveils-grokipedia-plans-counter-wikipedias-manipulation-truth-controlled-leftists

" as a move to counter the world's largest online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, which has been hijacked by left-wing activists who manipulate narratives and silence dissenting viewpoints.

"We are building Grokipedia @xAI . Will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia. Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe," Musk wrote on X.

Join https://twitter.com/xai?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

and help build Grokipedia, an open source knowledge repository that is vastly better than Wikipedia!

This will be available to the public with no limits on use. https://t.co/3CnfrvNIpI

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1973096444681752934?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The reliability of OpenAI's ChatGPT and even xAI's Grok comes into question given Wikipedia's designation of "reliable source"...

Here are all of Wikipedia's "reliable source". They include

MSNBC

NYT

Huffpost

Reddit

Snopes

Politifact

Rolling Stone

The Atlantic

Propublica

NPR

GLAADhttps://t.co/WvT6oEn7ag

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1972995551563264363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

And then there's this.

Reddit Plunges On New Traffic Data Suggesting ChatGPT "Massively Reduced Citations" https://t.co/LJ9ViwX9s6

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1973372365674254573?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Related:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-republicans-probe-wikipedia-over-alleged-bias-foreign-manipulation

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/wikipedia-co-founder-describes-us-intelligence-manipulation-worlds-largest-online

The broader message is that the fight for narrative control continues. Wikipedia has received funding (as per the report above) from dark-money NGOs, which undermines credibility and, most importantly, raises questions about the reliability of chatbots that pull information from Wikipedia entries. This may help explain why Musk is preparing to launch a competing "Grokpedia." The pursuit of truth, or the effort to seize narrative control from the Deep State, marches on.

https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden

Fri, 10/03/2025 - 18:30

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/why-wikipedia-may-omit-soros-details-tides-grants-funding-wikimedia-foundation