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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Press Association Political Staff

Starmer warns X that if it cannot control Grok, ‘we will’

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to Ikea in Croydon, south London, to mark the introduction of measures to make work pay and protect working families (Ian Vogler/Daily Mirror/PA) - (PA Wire)

Sir Keir Starmer has warned Elon Musk’s X that if it cannot control Grok “we will” and said the social media site could lose the “right to self regulate”.

It comes as media watchdog Ofcom has launched an investigation into whether the social media platform has breached UK law over reports that its chatbot Grok was used to create and share sexualised images of children.

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