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About this paper
Philipp Eibl, Erica Coppolillo, Simone Mungari, Luca Luceri
A study comparing Wikipedia and Grokipedia articles on controversial topics found both platforms exhibit an overall left-leaning orientation. However, Grokipedia consistently showed a modest but consistent right-leaning tendency and higher bimodality in its content distribution, particularly prioritizing right-leaning information earlier in articles.
Key insights
- Semantic similarity between the platforms decayed significantly across sections, with controversial topics showing substantially lower similarity than non-controversial ones.
- Grokipedia exhibited higher bimodality in political leaning for several controversial topics, indicating a broader spread of viewpoints with a greater shift towards the right compared to Wikipedia.
- The public perception of Grokipedia as an "extreme right-leaning encyclopedia" is challenged by findings of a modest but consistent relative right-leaning bias, suggesting nuanced ideological differences.
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