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Members of the Jewish community comfort each other following a deadly terror attack during Yom Kippur services at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, northern England, October 2, 2025. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)
May 15, 2026, 3:22 pm
X agrees to UK crackdown on hate speech, terror content after antisemitic attacks
British regulator says commitments by social media platform are ‘of particular importance’ following recent attacks on British Jews; activist: X still ‘failing in so many regards’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Official Iranian social media accounts share AI-generated Lego propaganda promoting its wartime narrative. (X)
May 13, 2026, 10:24 pm
From anti-Israel Legos to fake footage, Iran’s AI propaganda owns the digital battlefield
Harnessing artificial intelligence for cutesy songs and other content, Tehran proves adept at spreading its narrative, dominating Israel’s attempts to win hearts and minds of internet users
By Nava Freiberg
Israeli fintech startup BridgeWise uses proprietary AI to generate analysis for investors across 70,000 global securities. (Courtesy)
May 4, 2026, 11:17 pm
Israeli fintech startup partners with Elon Musk’s X to gauge market sentiment
BridgeWise will merge data from the world’s biggest financial conversation network into its AI investment intelligence tool to provide analysis across 70,000 securities
By Sharon Wrobel
Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Sa'ar at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, January 18, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 28, 2026, 9:42 pm
Sa’ar scolds Ukraine for doing Twitter diplomacy — but he does just the same, as does everyone else
Foreign minister regularly praises and lashes out against his counterparts on X, like other politicians. After a decade-plus of Trump tweets, it’s the new diplomatic normal
By Ben Sales
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses conspiracy theories claiming he is dead, in a video posted on March 15, 2026. (@netanyahu via X)
March 15, 2026, 8:17 pm
In video, Netanyahu mocks conspiracy theories about his death
Visiting a Jerusalem Hills cafe, premier debunks claim his recent live press conference was AI-generated, quips that he is ‘dying’ for coffee
A screen grab obtained from undated and unlocated video included in a montage posted by the White House X account that wove snippets of Hollywood blockbusters and video games into real footage of military strikes on Iran. (White House via X)
March 7, 2026, 7:44 am
White House posts montage of movie clips and real strikes on Iran
Iron Man, Gladiator and John Wick appear alongside real war footage in official social media video; Ben Stiller demands Tropic Thunder clip be removed, saying ‘war is not a movie’
By AFP
Hugh Laurie speaks at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards on September 22, 2019, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
February 22, 2026, 9:47 am
Hugh Laurie, attacked for mourning ‘Tehran’ producer, rejects assumptions he’s ‘Zionist’
Denial comes after anti-Israel accounts disparaged British actor for grieving Dana Eden, who died last week; his response then drives backlash from pro-Israel accounts
By ToI Staff
Elon Musk attends the public memorial service for slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on September 21, 2025. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)
November 21, 2025, 10:31 pm
France to investigate Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot after posts denying Holocaust
Grok tweeted that gas chambers at Auschwitz were designed for ‘disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus’ rather than mass murder
By Thomas Adamson
Cans of Zyklon B on display at Auschwitz. (photo credit: CC BY Jaysmark, Flickr)
November 19, 2025, 11:36 pm
French authorities probing Grok AI over ‘Holocaust-denying comments’
X chatbot made post Monday, since seen by over a million people, falsely claiming Nazi gas chambers were designed for disinfection instead of mass execution
By AFP
FILE - Lava lamps are seen through a lobby window at the headquarters of Cloudflare in San Francisco, August 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
November 18, 2025, 4:46 pm
Large swaths of internet disrupted due to Cloudflare outage
Service restored after several hours; X, ChatGPT, PayPal, dozens of other sites downed; outage intermittently affected The Times of Israel, impeding upload and display of photos
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Nicholas Ray Lyn, arrested in Texas in October 2025 for allegedly making antisemitic death threats to conservative activists. (Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office via JTA)
November 11, 2025, 4:05 am
Texas man charged with making antisemitic death threats against Jewish right-wing pundits
Nicholas Lyn Ray’s alleged victims include far-right Jewish conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, whom he called a ‘Mossad agent’ and said would ‘get hung from the capitol’
By Grace Gilson
The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone, October 16, 2023, in Sydney. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
October 1, 2025, 12:32 pm
Study: X now ‘one of the most effective tools for spreading antisemitism in history’
Report finds the platform, formerly known as Twitter, amplifies antisemitic conspiracy theories and allows hate speech to spread unchecked, with many monetizing their content
By Zev Stub
Elmo poses for a portrait in the Fender Music Lodge during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Jan. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Victoria Will, File)
July 14, 2025, 10:32 am
Hacked Elmo account on X says ‘kill all Jews,’ calls Trump Netanyahu’s ‘puppet’
Hack of beloved Sesame Street character’s X account comes days after site’s AI chatbot Grok posted antisemitic statements
By ToI Staff
Elon Musk waves to supporters during a town hall Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
July 12, 2025, 3:28 pm
Musk’s Grok chatbot checks billionaire’s views to answer questions, including on Mideast
Grok 4 has been observed searching tech mogul’s posts, or deferring to them, on issues such as Israel-Hamas war, sparking alarm among researchers over built-in bias
By AP
This photograph shows screens displaying the logo of Grok, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by US artificial intelligence company xAI, in Toulouse, southern France, on January 15, 2025. (Lionel Bonaventure / AFP)
July 11, 2025, 9:10 am
EU says taking Musk’s AI chatbot’s antisemitism ‘extremely seriously,’ is in touch with X
Bloc’s move comes after ‘Grok’ churns out antisemitic tropes, praises Hitler, insults Islam and Turkey’s Erdogan
By AFP
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