Responding to reports of falsehoods in his newly launched Grokipedia project, billionaire Elon Musk concocted a nonsensical conspiracy theory to deflect attention from his latest failure.

On Monday, Musk launched Grokipedia, an encyclopedia-style website written by artificial intelligence. And mere hours later, Wired’s review of the site’s content found multiple entries rife with falsehoods and disinformation.

For instance, the entry on slavery in the U.S. outlines “ideological justifications” for the practice and denies that slavery played a key economic role in the development of the nation. In reality, free labor from enslaved people built the economic power of the United States.

The site also furthers several right-wing views.

The site pushes the lie that the spread of pornography

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