{"id":370300,"date":"2026-01-15T00:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370300\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T00:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:10:12","slug":"call-for-middlesbrough-council-to-quit-x-amid-grok-ai-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370300\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Middlesbrough Council to quit X amid Grok AI controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Branson told the council that X, formerly known as Twitter, had &#8220;come up for a lot of criticism because of what it&#8217;s allowing people to do on its system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said it needed to look at controlling the way in which such internet services operate, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/ldrs.org.uk\/explorer\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Branson acknowledged the authority would not be able to police this and was also aware of the &#8220;danger&#8221; of people doing the opposite of what the authority said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Middlesbrough Council spokesman said it continued to keep its social media use under review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added: &#8220;[X] has recently been used to notify people of flu vaccine clinics, remind parents to apply for a primary school place for their child and share details of changes to bin collections over the festive period.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Branson told the council that X, formerly known as Twitter, had &#8220;come up for a lot of criticism&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-370300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}