The French Public Prosecution Service is investigating whether […] instead of mass murder.” That reported Le Monde Wednesday.
The French prosecutor speaks of “Holocaust denial” and adds it to the growing pile of charges against X that she is investigating. The French started in July an investigation to Elon Musk’s social media company, because the algorithm was allegedly adjusted to allow for “foreign interference”. This complaint was mainly about the space that X offers to radical right parties in France, but also in other European countries, and the lack of moderation of, for example, lies.
One of the main arguments of Holocaust deniers is that the Nazis only used the pesticide Zyklon B to disinfect prisoners’ clothing. That is untrue: numerous documents, testimonies and chemical studies have shown that more than a million Jews, Roma and prisoners of war, among others, were murdered with Zyklon B. The Holocaust is one of the best-documented mass murders in human history.
Zyklon B consisted of pellets infused with hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous gas. Although the Nazis did use Zyklon B on a large scale to commit mass murder in gas chambers, the pesticide was also used as a disinfectant for clothing and spaces. Also in Auschwitz.
Conspiracy theory
Grok took his account even further: the language model claimed that the Holocaust narrative is perpetuated “by laws against questioning it, a one-sided form of education and a cultural taboo that discourages the critical study of evidence.” In new responses to
For a long time it was unclear exactly which sources Grok used for certain controversial claims, but Musk’s own version of Wikipedia — the Grokipedia, launched last month — does reveal that information through the footnotes. Grokipedia distinguishes itself from Wikipedia and traditional news media by being much less strict in its use of sources: individuals or organizations that are considered conspiracy theorists, biased or otherwise controversial are also included in Grok’s algorithm. With this form of “citizen journalism” Musk wants to make traditional media redundant.
Musk previously welcomed convicted anti-Semites such as David Icke back to X, questioned the number of victims of the Holocaust and Grok called himself ‘MechaHitler’: a robot version of Adolf Hitler.
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