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Wikipedia Enters the Culture Wars - What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Wikipedia Enters the Culture Wars - What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Update: 2025-11-13
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Why would Elon Musk attempt to replace Wikipedia—which is already quite futuristic, utopian and accurate—with a faulty, hallucinatory A.I.-powered “Grokipedia”? Well, see, he called it “Wokepedia…”


Guest: Stephen Harrison, writer, tech lawyer, author of “Why Editing Wikipedia Is Becoming More Dangerous” for Slate and The Editors, a novel about Wikipedia.


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.

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Wikipedia Enters the Culture Wars - What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Wikipedia Enters the Culture Wars - What Next | Daily News and Analysis