Elon Musk's 'Woke Jeopardy!' Idea Goes Viral

Just hours before his Space X company safely landed four astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), Elon Musk was posting about "Woke Jeopardy!"

The Dragon Endeavour spacecraft docked at the ISS on Tuesday, where the three U.S. astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut will spend six months conducting science experiments for NASA.

But after the Space X ship launched, Musk took to X, formerly Twitter to share his thoughts on a wide range of subjects. Musk bought Twitter in 2022 in a $44 billion deal. Since then, he's instituted many changes, including rebranding the platform to X and vowing it would become a beacon of free speech in his war against "wokeness."

His latest jab game in the form of satire as he floated "Woke Jeopardy!"

The popular syndicated quiz show requires contestants to earn points by forming a question in different categories to an answer that appears on screens in front of them

"Woke Jeopardy ideas ... 'Difficult questions that require context for $400'," the Tesla CEO began.

"Is it better to: A. Cleanse the Earth in nuclear fire. B. Vote Republican."

The replies to Musk's post varied, with some agreeing with him and others questioning his judgement.

"@Elon musk. What happened to you? I used to have so much respect for you. You should fly on your rocket to space. It would give you a different perspective on humanity. It would be good for you. I'll go with you," wrote one person.

Another added: "That's not how jeopardy works dumba**. you are a f****** buffoon."

And a third commented: "B republicans may not be the solution to all your problems, but democrats are absolutely the cause of them."

Musk is no stranger to courting controversy on X and he previously slammed Disney for pulling its advertising from the social media platform due to hate speech and antisemitic rhetoric on the site.

In the early days after he took over X and promised to protect free speech, research found the use of hate language, including racist, homophobic, transphobic and antisemitic slurs, had jumped significantly, according to the U.K.-based Center for Countering Digital Hate.

"It is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square," Musk wrote to advertisers in October 2022. "That said, Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences! In addition to adhering to the laws of the land, our platform must be warm and welcoming to all."

But Twitter's former head of safety and integrity, Yoel Roth, admitted there had been a surge in problematic language on the site.

"Over the last 48 hours, we've seen a small number of accounts post a ton of Tweets that include slurs and other derogatory terms. To give you a sense of scale: More than 50,000 Tweets repeatedly using a particular slur came from just 300 accounts," Roth wrote on October 29.