India orders social media platforms to take down deepfakes faster |

India has ordered social media platforms to step up policing of deepfakes and other AI-generated impersonations, while sharply shortening the time they have to comply…

California AG sends Musk's xAI a cease-and-desist order over sexual deepfakes |

3:21 PM PST · January 16, 2026 Earlier this week, the California attorney general’s office announced that it was investigating xAI over reports that the…

Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes |

11:37 AM PST · January 10, 2026 Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok. This is one of…

AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations

Father Mike Schmitz, a Catholic priest and podcaster, addressed his congregation of more than 1.2 million YouTube subscribers in November with an unusual kind of…

French and Malaysian authorities are investigating Grok for generating sexualized deepfakes |

8:50 AM PST · January 4, 2026 Over the past few days, France and Malaysia have joined India in condemning Grok for creating sexualized deepfakes…