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EU Probes Musk’s X Over Deepfakes, Risking New Clash With Trump

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The Grok X AI app displays on a mobile phone with the Grok X AI logo, as seen in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on February 16, 2025. (Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Photographer: Jonathan Raa/Getty Images

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By Zoltan Simon

January 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM UTC

Days after President Donald Trump appeared to back away from threats of seizing Greenland by force if necessary, another flashpoint between the US and Europe is coming back into focus.

The European Union’s executive launched a probe today into Elon Musk’s X over concerns it failed to prevent its Grok AI chatbot from inundating the site with deepfake images.