X’s AI tool Grok debunks Algerian propaganda
Over the past few days, humans left the job of answering Algerian propaganda to Grok, an AI tool developed by X social media platform to debunk fake news and propaganda.
The AI tool has been used at a large scale by Moroccans on the social media platform asking questions that address the propaganda spread by Algerian electronic flies of the military regime, such as who created Algeria in its current borders? Grok shocking the henchman of the Algerian regime: France.
In some questions by random Moroccan users, Grok explained that vast swathes of what Eastern Algeria is now have been amputated by France from Morocco and attached to its colony. These include the cities of Tindouf and Bechar, as well as the areas of Saoura and Tidikelt.
Such answers by a global AI tool that relies on academic resources has sent shockwaves among Algerian regime’s henchman on twitter, who have been for years trying to fabricate a new history of Algeria, which they ended up believing in it.
The Algerian false narrative is that Algeria was a state that preceded colonialism and that Morocco has never existed.
Such a new national narrative, invented from scratch, explains the impulsive reactions of the Algerian regime to intellectuals who dare to refer to historical truths. The most recent example was writer Boualem Sansal who said Tlemcen and western Algeria were once Morocco’s. His comments got him five years in jail.
The Algerian provisional government, which led the Evian talks that resulted in Algeria’s independence, had agreed with King Mohammed V to discuss with Morocco the fate of the regions attached by French to Algeria after independence. After the coup by Boumedien’s army stationed in Morocco and Tunisia – which never fired a single bullet – those discussions were called the Sand War of 1963.
Tangible heritage, like cuisine and traditional dresses like the mythical caftan, have also been targeted by a spate of Algerian usurpation campaigns. The Algerian regime, after centuries of Ottoman assimilation followed by French colonialism, is overwhelmed by jealousy at how Moroccans managed to preserve their heritage.
Instead of adopting Moroccan traditions and recognizing their origins, they prefer rather to mock themselves saying the Caftan is theirs. Meanwhile, they continue to import the caftan and other Moroccan traditional outfits because they lack craftsmen and know-how.
As Moroccans take pride buoyed by a centuries-old know-how and an ongoing preservation of their tangible and intangible heritage, the result of a rich history of sovereignty, Algerians take refuge in social media to rhetorically usurp what is not theirs and spread lies about history which they ignore. Yet they can only fool themselves and take pedagogical slaps from AI tools like Grok.