{"id":983168,"date":"2026-01-03T10:56:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983168"},"modified":"2026-01-03T10:56:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:26:56","slug":"grok-ai-controversy-what-led-to-centres-crackdown-on-elon-musks-x-72-hour-deadline-to-respond-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/03\/grok-ai-controversy-what-led-to-centres-crackdown-on-elon-musks-x-72-hour-deadline-to-respond-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Grok AI controversy: What led to centre&#8217;s crackdown on Elon Musk&#8217;s X, 72-hour deadline to respond | Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The central government on Friday came down heavily on Elon Musk&#8217;s X (formerly Twitter) and sought an Action Taken Report (ATR) within 72 hours, while calling for immediate compliance to prevent the hosting, creation, and uploading of obscene, nude, indecent, and sexually explicit content \u201cthrough the misuse of AI-based services like \u2018Grok\u2019 and xAI\u2019s other services&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) cited X&#8217;s \u201cfailure to observe statutory due diligence obligations\u201d under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and other applicable laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The central government on Friday came down heavily on Elon Musk&#8217;s X (formerly Twitter) and sought an Action Taken Report (ATR) within 72 hours, while calling for immediate compliance to prevent the hosting, creation, and uploading of obscene, nude, indecent, and sexually explicit content \u201cthrough the misuse of AI-based services like \u2018Grok\u2019 and xAI\u2019s other services&#8221;. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) cited X&#8217;s \u201cfailure to observe statutory due diligence obligations\u201d under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and other applicable laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}