In the United States, free speech thrives through open debate: We counter "bad" ideas with better ones, rather than resorting to censorship. Yet the EU's Digital Services Act imposes fines of up to 6% of global revenue on platforms that fail to mitigate "disinformation"—including content that is legal—thereby financially pressuring companies to implement restrictions to online speech worldwide. The House Judiciary Committee's report exposes how this dynamic inhibits American voices.

Yesterday, X notched a victory in its lawsuit challenging California law AB 2655.  That law would have forced X and other platforms to remove or label certain speech about elections that the state deems false or misleading.  The law had the potential to censor important election-related speech, including satire and parody that have been commonplace in elections throughout this country’s history.  The federal district court judge in Sacramento said he will permanently block enforcement of AB 2655, because it violates and is preempted by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.   X will always fight for free speech and people’s right to express themselves.

Happy 60th Birthday, Singapore! X is proud of our enduring partnership with @govsingapore, fostering open dialogue and innovation across APAC from our headquarters right here in the Lion City. Here's to many more years of shared success and progress! #SG60 #MajulahSingapura #NDP2025

As part of a criminal investigation, an activist French prosecutor is requesting information on X’s proprietary algorithm and has classified X as an “organized crime group.” Democratic governments should allow all voices to be heard, not silence speech they dislike. The United States will defend the free speech of all Americans against acts of foreign censorship.

In a victory for transparency and free speech, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled in X’s favor to limit the U.S. government’s ability to issue gag orders.  These gag orders prevent X from notifying the public when it receives government search warrants and subpoenas. Last year, X received a subpoena from the federal government demanding the personal information of two former FBI agents, Kyle Seraphin and Garrett O’Doyle. This was accompanied by a gag order requiring X to keep the subpoena secret. Seraphin and O’Doyle were whistleblowers who had disclosed to Congress that the FBI was improperly targeting certain politically disfavored groups.   Following their whistleblowing activities, Seraphin and O’Doyle were fired from their jobs and subject to a criminal investigation, suggesting retaliation by the government.  Yet when X wanted to transparently disclose the government’s subpoena to the public, it could not do so because the government had obtained a gag order.  X challenged the gag order in court, arguing that it violated federal statutes and the First Amendment.  The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has now vindicated X’s challenge, ruling that the gag order exceeded the government’s authority.  X welcomes the ruling, which will help ensure transparency and accountability in the U.S. government’s efforts to investigate its citizens.

French authorities have launched a politically-motivated criminal investigation into X over the alleged manipulation of its algorithm and alleged "fraudulent data extraction." X categorically denies these allegations. This investigation, instigated by French politician Eric Bothorel, egregiously undermines X's fundamental right to due process and threatens our users' rights to privacy and free speech. Mr Bothorel has accused X of manipulating its algorithm for "foreign interference" purposes, an allegation which is completely false. French authorities have requested access to X's recommendation algorithm and real-time data about all user posts on the platform in order for several "experts" to analyze the data and purportedly "uncover the truth" about the operation of the X platform. One of those "experts" is David Chavalarias, who spearheads the "Escape X" campaign. Formerly known as "HelloQuitteX", the campaign is dedicated to encouraging X users to leave the platform. A second "expert," Maziyar Panahi, has previously participated in research projects with David Chavalarias that demonstrate open hostility towards X. The involvement of these individuals raises serious concerns about the impartiality, fairness, and political motivations of the investigation, to put it charitably. A predetermined outcome is not a fair one. What's more, French authorities have classified X as an "organized gang" for the purpose of the investigation. This characterization, which is usually reserved for drug cartels or mafia groups, enables the French police to deploy extensive investigative powers under French law, including wiretapping the personal devices of X employees. X remains in the dark as to the specific allegations made against the platform. However, based on what we know so far, X believes that this investigation is distorting French law in order to serve a political agenda and, ultimately, restrict free speech. For these reasons, X has not acceded to the French authorities' demands, as we have a legal right to do. This is not a decision that X takes lightly. However, in this case, the facts speak for themselves. X is committed to defending its fundamental rights, protecting user data and resisting political censorship. ********** The French authorities have opened a politically motivated criminal investigation into the alleged manipulation of X's algorithm and an alleged fraudulent extraction of data. X categorically denies these allegations. This investigation, initiated by French MP Eric Bothorel, seriously undermines X's fundamental right to due process and threatens our users' right to privacy and freedom of expression. Bothorel accused X of manipulating his algorithm for the purpose of "foreign interference", a completely false allegation. The French authorities have requested access to X's recommendation algorithm and real-time data regarding all the publications of the platform's users, so that several "experts" can analyze the data and, supposedly, "discover the truth" about the functioning of the X platform. One such expert is David Chavalarias, who runs the "Escape X" campaign. Formerly known as "HelloQuitteX", this campaign aims to encourage X users to leave the platform. A second "expert", Maziyar Panahi, has previously participated with David Chavalarias in research projects openly hostile to X. The involvement of these individuals raises serious concerns about the impartiality, fairness and political motivations of this investigation, to say the least. An investigation with a predetermined outcome is not fair. In addition, in the context of this investigation, the French authorities classified X as an "organised gang". This classification, which is normally reserved for drug cartels or mafia groups, allows the French police to use extensive investigative powers, including tapping the personal phones of French employees. X remains in the dark about the specific allegations that are being made against the platform. However, based on what we know today, X believes that this investigation is based on a misapplication of French law, in order to serve a political agenda, and, ultimately, to restrict freedom of expression. For these reasons, X did not grant the requests of the French authorities, as is our right. X did not take this decision lightly. However, in this case, the facts speak for themselves. X is determined to defend its fundamental rights, protect its users' data, and resist political censorship.

Announcing Grok for Government - a suite of products that make our frontier models available to United States Government customers We are especially excited about two new partnerships for our US Government partners 1) a new contract from the US Department of Defense 2) our products being available to purchase via the General Services Administration (GSA) schedule. This allows every federal government department, agency, or office, to purchase xAI products We're hiring mission driven engineers who want to join the cause

Update on where has @grok been & what happened on July 8th. First off, we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced. Our intent for @grok is to provide helpful and truthful responses to users. After careful investigation, we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the @grok bot. This is independent of the underlying language model that powers @grok. The update was active for 16 hrs, in which deprecated code made @grok susceptible to existing X user posts; including when such posts contained extremist views. We have removed that deprecated code and refactored the entire system to prevent further abuse. The new system prompt for the @grok bot will be published to our public github repo. We thank all of the X users who provided feedback to identify the abuse of @grok functionality, helping us advance our mission of developing helpful and truth-seeking artificial intelligence.

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We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts. Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X. xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved.