{"id":421678,"date":"2026-01-18T18:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/421678\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:19:10","slug":"formal-investigation-into-x-by-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/421678\/","title":{"rendered":"Formal investigation into X by Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission is expected to open a formal investigation into X this week, over the spread of AI-generated \u201cnudified\u201d images.<\/p>\n<p>It follows concerns around the use of Grok to create non-consensual images, including of children.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are investigating around 200 reports, while EU officials assess whether the platform breached the Digital Services Act, according to the Business Post.<\/p>\n<p>X has since said it\u2019s restricting the tool.<\/p>\n<p>Fianna F\u00e1il TD and member of the Oireachtas Media Committee, Malcolm Byrne \u2013 who has left the platform \u2013 is describing its approach over the controversy as \u201cshameful\u201d:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NEWSTALK202601180105.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NEWSTALK202601180105.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The European Commission is expected to open a formal investigation into X this week, over the spread&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-421678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}