Billionaire Elon Musk-owned social media platform 'X' (formerly known as Twitter) has admitted its mistake and stated that it will comply with Indian law, ANI reported on 11 January citing government sources. The IT Ministry had on 2 January directed X to immediately remove all vulgar, obscene and unlawful content, especially generated by Grok AI or face action under the law. The Centre also noted that while the earlier response submitted by the social media platform was detailed, it was not adequate. Recently, the AI chatbot was responding to image altering requests with the following message: “Image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers. The chatbot is free to use for X users, who can ask it questions on the social media platform.

Source: Mint January 11, 2026 04:12 UTC