Comment by tstrimple
2 days ago
Because they are ideologically aligned with Elon Musk. They want the alternative facts. They need sources to point to because they keep getting beat up with this troubling thing called reality. They think if they can drop a grokipedia link to counter a wikipedia link they are "winning".
I don't think Jimmy Wales is ideologically aligned with Elon Musk.
He's not. But he just dismissed a question at a conference, that then somehow got turned into a whole article and a front page story on HN.