{"id":245085,"date":"2026-01-18T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/245085\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:31:09","slug":"formal-investigation-into-x-by-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/245085\/","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":245086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-245085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}