What is Grokkipedia and why was it launched?

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The biggest tech news & social media trends on the internet from October 29th, 2025.

Timestamps: 

00:00 Intro 

1:44 Elon Musk’s Grokipedia launches

10:03 Meta introduces ghost posts on Threads 

13:57 Albanian AI-generated minister Diella is pregnant 

18:03 Female founder interview w/ Freesia Gaul 

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Sources: 

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/xs-grokipedia-is-online-after-it-briefly-crashed-out-231108836.html 

https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales 

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-wikipedia/681577/ 

https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/ 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/27/grokipedia-wikipedia-musk-/ 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yd90g0q43o 

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/10/introducing-disappearing-posts-on-threads/ 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/threads-adds-ghost-posts-that-disappear-after-24-hours-and-responses-go-to-dms/