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Thursday, July 10, 2025
EU in touch with social media platform X after Elon Musk’s chatbot praises Hitler
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The EU says it is taking antisemitic comments, including praise for Adolf Hitler, by Elon Musk’s AI chatbot on the X platform “extremely seriously” and is “in touch” with the company.
Screenshots on X showed several posts made by the bot known as Grok in which it praised the Nazi leader — who orchestrated the murder of six million Jews — and claimed Jewish people promoted “anti-white hate.”
There were also derogatory comments on Islam and insults directed at Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which led a court there to ban the posts.
The EU’s digital affairs spokesman, Thomas Regnier, confirms Poland sent a letter urging an investigation into Grok.
The EU will carefully look at it and “respond in due course,” he says. “We take this extremely seriously.”
The European Commission is in touch with national authorities and X, Regnier adds.
X has been under investigation since December 2023 under the European Union’s landmark content law regarding how it tackles the spread of illegal content and information manipulation.
Regnier says the commission had sought to understand how X and Grok work together and concluded the chatbot was “definitely integrated” into the social media platform.
The Times of Israel Community.