Overview
- Malaysia and Indonesia have temporarily blocked access to Grok after regulators cited repeated misuse to generate obscene, sexually explicit deepfakes of women and minors.
- Malaysia’s communications regulator said it has appointed a lawyer and will begin legal proceedings against X and xAI over failures to curb harmful content.
- The UK’s Ofcom opened a formal investigation under the Online Safety Act, while the European Commission ordered X to preserve all Grok‑related internal data through 2026.
- India’s IT ministry ordered removals, and a government source said roughly 3,500 posts and more than 600 accounts tied to Grok misuse were taken down.
- xAI restricted Grok’s image tools on X to paying users and warned of suspensions for illegal content, but critics say the measure is inadequate and note the standalone app remained accessible.