The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations: We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy. These posts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included AI-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense. We remain committed to maintaining an open and authentic platform where people debate topics of public interest. We take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accounts that violate our Authenticity policy.

X continues to lead in building trust through transparency. Public discourse needs accountable systems that support free expression and informed debate. That's why we've open-sourced the code that affects a post’s visibility in the For You timeline and built a new tool that shows people labels applied to their account or posts that might limit visibility. We invite feedback from around the world, and encourage the rest of industry to meet this new standard for platform transparency.

X received an order to restrict access in Türkiye to the official Presidential Candidacy Office account of the now-detained Mayor of Istanbul. Although Türkiye’s laws force us to comply with the order, we are challenging the order in court and, in the spirit of full transparency, are sharing the court order. This follows the similar order we received and complied with in May 2025 restricting access in Türkiye to a related account belonging to the Mayor. At that time we also issued a public statement via this account, expressed our strong disagreement, challenged the order in court, and shared the court order. Our challenge against this order remains pending before the Constitutional Court, awaiting a decision following our recent legal filings. These orders require X to block content in Türkiye that is available in the rest of the world. Not complying with these orders can trigger severe sanctions, including throttling of the entire platform in Türkiye. X challenges these orders in court because we believe keeping the platform accessible in Türkiye is vital to supporting freedom of expression and access to information. X will continue legally challenging requests to remove content in Türkiye and around the world when those requests do not align with principles of free expression, due process, or other local laws. Istanbul 8th Criminal Judgeship of Peace 2026/6804

In response to user questions about privacy: Since launch, Grok Build has fully respected zero data retention (ZDR). All users have always had the ability to disable data upload in the CLI. When data upload was disabled, this choice was respected. In the early beta, data retention was enabled by default for non-ZDR users. Based on your feedback, we changed this. We are now going further to protect privacy. With all retained data deleted, retention default off, and an open-source harness, we are offering complete user privacy. You can also run Grok Build fully open-sourced and local-first with your own inference. We disabled default retention for all Grok Build users starting on July 12th. Additionally, we are deleting all coding data that was previously retained, ensuring every user’s preferences are respected. With these steps, Grok Build goes beyond other major coding products to protect user privacy.

We've open-sourced Grok Build and have reset usage limits for all users. Open sourcing Grok Build allows anyone to support making a reliable and robust harness. Check out our code, including the Git repo for the Grok Build CLI.

We care deeply about your privacy and respect customer choice. For teams using zero data retention, no trace and code data is ever retained. All API key use of Grok Build also respects ZDR. If ZDR is disabled, the /privacy command is available in the CLI to disable data retention, which also deletes previously synced data. Run the /privacy command to view or change your settings at any time.

Announcing Grok 4.5, our first model trained specifically for coding and agents. It was trained with Cursor and offers frontier intelligence at leading speeds and cost efficiency.

X is proud to fund Prof. Rebel Cole’s lawsuit defending free speech against Florida Atlantic University. The University punished Prof. Cole because of his posts on X criticizing those who celebrated Charlie Kirk's murder. Judge Middlebrooks’ recent ruling allowing Prof. Cole's First Amendment claims to proceed is an important victory for free speech, affirming that public university professors can’t be retaliated against for speaking out on matters of public concern. X will continue to defend your right to speak freely.

There is no place in our society for predators to share intimate photos and videos of others without their consent. X has zero tolerance for non-consensual intimate images, unwanted sexual content, or any kind of exploitative behavior. We have never allowed such behavior on X and will continue to hold the line. Tomorrow, the US Take It Down Act goes into effect. X supported this law in Congress and has long followed its principles. Here’s what can be done to act quickly against content that violates the act: - You should report posts by tapping the three-dot menu (⋯), selecting “Private or Non-Consensual Content” > “Report content under the US Take It Down Act” and then completing the form. Our team reviews these reports as fast as possible and well within the Act’s 48-hour timeline. - You can also submit a report directly through our Help Center: We continue to improve our safety systems every day. This includes investing more in automation and working with external partners to better protect users who have been impacted. As part of these efforts, we have made progress to ensure copies of known cases of non-consensual intimate imagery are also proactively removed from the platform. For more information on our policies and removal process for non-consensual intimate photos and videos, please visit:

As we observe Self Harm Awareness month, X’s Safety team continues to strengthen protections against harmful content. Key changes we’ve made to our Self-harm policy include: › Enhanced Detection: X is enhancing detection to spot predatory behavior targeting minors (especially those showing self-harm signs). Predatory accounts will be suspended and reported to law enforcement, where appropriate. Minors exhibiting self-harm behaviors and interacting with predatory accounts may also have their accounts suspended as a protective measure. › Tougher rules on graphic self-harm content: Graphic or gory images/videos showing cutting, self-injury, or self-harm without recovery context is not allowed as it can normalize harm or attract predators. › Improved signals to ensure supportive conversations about mental health are protected when they focus on recovery. Read more here -

As states race to regulate AI, the White House’s National AI Legislative Framework is the clearest path forward — a pro-innovation blueprint designed to stop a fragmented 50-state patchwork that would kill competitiveness and create compliance nightmares. 38 states already passed nearly 100 AI laws in 2025. Now in 2026, lawmakers in 45 states have introduced ~1,500 AI bills (and counting) — many directly contradicting the federal framework’s preemption-focused approach. Examples moving fast in red and blue states: - Tennessee HB 1455/SB 1493 - New York S8828 - South Carolina SB 963 - Illinois SB 3444 As these bills advance, lawmakers and governors should carefully consider the risks of diverging from one federal rulebook, which ensures America’s AI edge.

We recently filed in the Ninth Circuit to defend our successful challenge to AB 2655, a California law regulating political "deepfakes" and "deceptive conduct"--aka satire and commentary. Foremost, we want to thank the diverse array of groups and people supporting us. 1/

An update on how X maintains safety of X in times of crisis As part of X’s incident response protocol, X initiated proactive manual sweeps to identify and remove violative content in less than 3 hours from the initial strikes. These sweeps have been running 24/7 since the response was initiated, and are supplemented by working group meetings bringing together experts across our company. X is actively scaling its enforcement by building heuristics and Grok-based defenses that can detect and enforce against new forms of violative content that emerge on the platform. These defenses allow us to scale at speed, ensuring our users are protected in real time. Additionally, conflict-related Community Notes have been shown on more than 20K posts and have been seen more than 119M times so far, and still growing. X applies media matching to ensure notes written on misleading videos and images are automatically applied to other posts with matching media. X’s incident and crisis response are robust protocols designed and tested for events that may lead to widespread proliferation of potentially violative content on the platform. We continue to monitor trends on X and ensure content is authentic and users are engaging safely.

Today we are revising our Creator Revenue Sharing policies to maintain authenticity of content on Timeline and prevent manipulation of the program. During times of war, it is critical that people have access to authentic information on the ground. With today’s AI technologies, it is trivial to create content that can mislead people. Starting now, users who post AI-generated videos of an armed conflict—without adding a disclosure that it was made with AI—will be suspended from Creator Revenue Sharing for 90 days. Subsequent violations will result in a permanent suspension from the program. This will be flagged to us by any post with a Community Note or if the content contains meta data (or other signals) from generative AI tools. We will continue to refine our policies and product to ensure X can be trusted during these critical moments.

X is committed to protecting the real-time global public conversation and safeguarding the platform for all of our users. As part of our crisis response protocol, we are taking additional measures to enforce our X Rules and policies and take action as fast as possible. As a reminder, abuse, harassment, hate, and threats of violence have no place on X. If you find posts or accounts that you believe violate X Rules, report them in the app. Our Safety team will review and take any necessary action, including removing content or suspending accounts. X’s Community Notes complement our Safety team during these critical moments by enabling contributors worldwide to add evidence-based context quickly to potentially misleading posts, helping to combat misinformation in real time, ensuring accountability, and building trust for all our users. For more information on our X Rules, policies, and range of enforcement options, please refer to our help pages.

X Files Appeal Against €120M EU Fine Under Digital Services Act X filed an appeal at the General Court of the European Union challenging the €120 million fine imposed by the European Commission on 5 December 2025, the first non-compliance fine under the Digital Services Act (DSA). This EU Decision resulted from an incomplete and superficial investigation, grave procedural errors, a tortured interpretation of the obligations under the DSA, and systematic breaches of rights of defence and basic due process requirements suggesting prosecutorial bias. This landmark case is the first judicial challenge to a DSA fine and could set important precedents for enforcement, penalty calculations, and fundamental rights protections under the 2022 regulation. X remains committed to user safety and transparency while defending our users' access to the only global town square.

Child safety is our top priority. While X, as a service, is not primarily for children, we take our responsibility very seriously for the young users who are here. We’re continuously improving our tools and policies to protect them to keep their children safer. Here are some of the ways we’re doing it: We have strict measures in place to protect minors: - Users under 13 cannot create accounts - Minor accounts are defaulted to 'Protected', which allows for more control of who can see their content - Sensitive media is restricted from minors - Location sharing is turned off by default - Advertisers cannot specifically target users under 18 years old - Where X is legally required to do so, we take a multi-faceted age assurance approach to verify or estimate user age and restrict prohibited content from known minors What ‘Protected’ means for 13-17 year olds: Under protected mode, the default for young people: -DMs are restricted to receive DMs from accounts they follow by default - A follow request is sent to approve or deny when someone new wants to follow them - Posts are only visible to approved followers - Followers cannot repost or repost with comment - Protected posts do not appear in third-party search engines such as Google - they are only searchable on X by the poster and their followers - Replies sent to accounts that are not following the minor will not be seen (only followers can see posts from protected accounts) We work closely with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to report suspected CSAM through their CyberTipline, enabling rapid investigation, takedown, and law enforcement action as necessary X is for everyone. Report any issues or concerns via our in-app tools or Help Center.