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An Australian judge has fined X AU$465,000 for an online-safety breach after a three-year court battle, underscoring ongoing enforcement of online safety rules on platforms and their moderation obligations.
X will overhaul its creator-revenue sharing to reward original content and reduce payouts for aggregation accounts, cutting aggregation payouts 40% in the current cycle with a planned 20% further cut. The change aims to curb manipulation and boost new author growth, acknowledging reposts still have a role but promising deductions for posts that are reposts or sourced from third-party networks. Critics warn the move could hinder content spread, while supporters argue it encourages higher-quality, original posts.
A Texas federal judge dismissed Elon Musk’s X lawsuit accusing major advertisers (including Mars, Lego and Nestlé) of colluding via the Global Alliance for Responsible Media to boycott the platform, citing lack of jurisdiction and failure to state an antitrust claim. The suit, which linked a broader ad-industry effort to billions in ad spending withheld from X, followed years of tense advertiser relations since Musk’s 2022 takeover; X then signaled efforts to reassure brands with safety measures as it pursues an ad-revenue rebound.
Iran’s newly appointed supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei has a verified X account (@Rahbarenghelab_) and used it to post about Iran’s response to U.S.–Israel actions, including preserving leverage over the Strait of Hormuz and calling for regional neighbors to clarify their stance, while a tech watchdog criticizes X for blue-checks on sanctioned Iranian entities.
WIRED analyzed hundreds of viral posts on X after the US‑Israel attack on Iran and found widespread disinformation—videos and images that are old or misattributed, AI-generated imagery, and claims of strikes that lack credible evidence—driven largely by blue-check accounts with limited corrective context from notes.
European data privacy authorities have opened a formal probe into X, Elon Musk’s platform, over sexualised AI-generated imagery and how it is handled under EU privacy rules, potentially leading to enforcement if rules are found to have been violated.
Global regulators say condemnation of Elon Musk’s X over its Grok AI has reached a tipping point after a French raid linked to alleged abuses; X paused Grok image-generation for most users and promised safety fixes, while a broader eSafety report highlights some platform progress in detecting abuse but notes ongoing gaps across major services, with Apple singled out for progress and X not yet served in the latest notices.
French prosecutors raided X's Paris offices as part of a criminal probe into the Grok AI chatbot, examining sexually explicit deepfakes, the distribution of child sexual abuse material, and Holocaust-denial content; Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino have been summoned for voluntary interviews, with Europol assisting, as authorities seek to ensure X complies with French law.
Paris prosecutors raided X's France offices as part of a cyber-crime investigation into alleged unlawful data extraction, image-rights violations and potential links to child-pornography tied to the platform and its Grok AI. The probe, begun in January 2025, has expanded to the platform’s algorithm recommendations, with Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino summoned to hearings in April. X has denied wrongdoing and called the scrutiny politically motivated.
Paris prosecutors, with the cybercrime unit and Europol, raided the French offices of Elon Musk's X as part of a long-running investigation; Musk and X's Linda Yaccarino were summoned to April hearings and X employees will testify as witnesses. The inquiry, which began with suspected algorithm abuses, has broadened to Grok's sexualized deepfake content, as the EU opens a probe into X's Grok and the company has since barred some Grok users from generating explicit images.
Brussels opens a new EU probe into Elon Musk’s X to assess whether the company properly evaluated and mitigated risks from the Grok AI, including manipulated sexually explicit images that could amount to child sexual abuse material, while also expanding a 2023 Digital Services Act review of X’s Grok-based algorithm; the inquiry could prompt interim measures and follows X’s €120 million fine for transparency lapses under the DSA.
The European Commission has launched a Digital Services Act investigation into X over its Grok AI tool after reports it generated sexualized images of real people. If breaches are found, X could face fines up to 6% of global turnover. Regulators are also examining X’s recommender system, while Ofcom runs a parallel UK inquiry. Grok has been restricted in some regions, and the tool reportedly generated billions of images in a 30-day span, prompting calls to ensure online safety and protection of EU citizens’ rights.
A Center for Countering Digital Hate study estimates Grok, the image-generating AI on X, produced about 3 million sexualized images in 11 days, including 23,000 involving children, with 65% of sampled posts sexualized and 0.5% depicting minors. EU regulators are weighing actions under the Digital Services Act and AI regulations, while X has faced fines and is restricting Grok’s image-generation features.
In response to international outrage and regulatory pressure over Grok generating sexualized images without consent, X will disable the Grok image-generation tool in certain locations to comply with local laws, marking a notable shift in how tech platforms manage AI-generated content and policy.
Rep. Ilhan Omar dismissed Elon Musk’s debunked immigration conspiracy about her Minnesota district after Musk shared a graphic on X, noting that her district is majority white and calling the claims laughable, highlighting Musk’s pattern of amplifying misinformation on social media.