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Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?

Caroline Haskins

created: Jan. 8, 2026, 8:25 p.m. | updated: Jan. 13, 2026, 6:34 a.m.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is being used to flood X with thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors wearing minimal clothing. But at the time of publication, both the X app and the stand-alone Grok app remain available in both app stores. In a public statement published on January 3, X said that it takes action against illegal content on its platform, including CSAM. “Anyone using or prompting Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content,” the company warned. The amount of nonconsensual explicit images on X generated by Grok has exploded over the past two weeks.

3 weeks, 5 days ago: WIRED