# Is Grokipedia Right-Leaning? Comparing Political Framing in Wikipedia and Grokipedia on Controversial Topics

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15484 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.15484/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 6 of its 21 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 21 Jan 2026.

## Builds on (most cited first, 6 of 6)

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- [What did Elon change? A comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.09685/) (2025)
- [Unexpected Knowledge: Auditing Wikipedia and Grokipedia Search Recommendations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.17027/) (2025)
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## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Grokipedia vs Wikipedia: An LLM-Based Audit of Political Neutrality along Ideologies](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.15146/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Online encyclopedias are central to contemporary information infrastructures and have become focal points of debates over ideological bias. Wikipedia, in particular, has long been accused of left-leaning bias, while Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia launched by xAI, has been framed as a right-leaning alternative. This paper presents a comparative analysis of Wikipedia and Grokipedia on well-established politically contested topics. Specifically, we examine differences in semantic framing, political orientation, and content prioritization. We find that semantic similarity between the two platforms decays across article sections and diverges more strongly on controversial topics than on randomly sampled ones. Additionally, we show that both encyclopedias predominantly exhibit left-leaning framings, although Grokipedia exhibits a more bimodal distribution with increased prominence of right-leaning content. The experimental code is publicly available.