{"id":391306,"date":"2026-01-26T13:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391306\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:36:07","slug":"eu-investigates-elon-musks-x-over-grok-ai-sexual-deepfakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391306\/","title":{"rendered":"EU investigates Elon Musk’s X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Other investigations into the platform’s chatbot are underway in Australia, France and Germany. <\/p>\n

Grok was temporarily banned in Indonesia and Malaysia, although the latter has now lifted the ban.<\/p>\n

Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy at the Commission called the sexual deepfakes a “violent, unacceptable form of degradation”.<\/p>\n

“With this investigation, we will determine whether X has met its legal obligations under the DSA, or whether it treated rights of European citizens – including those of women and children – as collateral damage of its service,” she said.<\/p>\n

In a statement to Reuters, Doherty said there were “serious questions” over if platforms such as X were meeting legal obligations “to assess risks properly and to prevent illegal and harmful content from spreading”.<\/p>\n

“The European Union has clear rules to protect people online,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Those rules must mean something in practice, especially when powerful technologies are deployed at scale.<\/p>\n

“No company operating in the EU is above the law.”<\/p>\n

The move comes a month after the EU fined X \u20ac120m (\u00a3105m) over its blue tick badges<\/a>, saying they “deceive users” because the firm is not “meaningfully verifying” who is behind the account.<\/p>\n

In response, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) accused the EU regulator of attacking and censoring US firms.<\/p>\n

“The European Commission’s fine isn’t just an attack on X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments,” he said.<\/p>\n

His remarks were reposted by Musk, who added “absolutely”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Other investigations into the platform’s chatbot are underway in Australia, France and Germany. Grok was temporarily banned in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391307,"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-391306","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\/391306","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=391306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}