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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Sean Ingle

Sport England suspends X social media account and takes aim at Elon Musk

The Grok logo is displayed on a smartphone in front of a photograph of Elon Musk
Sport England’s chair criticised X’s AI platform tool, Grok, and took a broader aim at Elon Musk. Photograph: Algi Febri Sugita/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Sport England has revealed that it has suspended its account on X, because the social media platform “­increasingly promotes and monetises an environment that is hostile to women and girls”.

In a blog post explaining the ­decision the Sport England chair, Chris Boardman, criticised X’s AI platform tool, Grok, saying it had “contributed to the amplification of and worse, normalisation of, misogynistic content”.

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