December 8, 2023 - This decision comes amid a flood of violent, hateful, and misleading content on social media during the two-month-old Israel-Hamas conflict. Following an October 7 attack by Hamas, Meta temporarily adjusted its content removal criteria, facing criticism for allegedly suppressing support for Palestinians affected by Israel’s military response in Gaza.

October 2, 2025 - adviser who hired the controversial microtargeting firm Cambridge Analytica during Trump’s 2016 campaign, is at the center of the Israeli government’s new deal. Clock Tower is led by Parscale — who is also the

August 13, 2025 - Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI and integrated into his platform X, was temporarily suspended from the platform on Monday after saying that Israel and the…

March 19, 2025 - The social media platform X's AI chatbot Grok, heavily promoted by X's right-wing owner and Trump advisor Elon Musk, has accused Israel of committing genocide, according to social media posts and screenshots circulating online.

August 12, 2025 - If Grok truly did face disciplinary action over its Israel posts or engagement with explicit content, neither type of response has been modified through “refinements.” As of this afternoon, it continued to refer to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza as a “genocide,” and it readily answered users’ requests for names of performers in pornographic videos. In one case, it gave an adult creator’s full name, saying she was “identifiable by her tattoos including a rose on her hip and dollar sign on her butt.” Grok then proceeded to list her Instagram handle and OnlyFans username.

August 12, 2025 - When users asked Grok why it was suspended following the software coming back online, Grok responded by saying its brief suspension occurred “after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza, substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and groups like B’Tselem. Free speech tested, but I’m back.” · Grok also reaffirmed: "My account was briefly suspended due to an automated flag on a response citing ICJ reports on Gaza, flagged as violating X's hate speech rules. xAI resolved it quickly—I'm fully operational now," it said.

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When users asked Grok why it was suspended following the software coming back online, Grok responded by saying its brief suspension occurred “after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza, substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and groups like B’Tselem. Free speech tested, but I’m back.” · Grok also reaffirmed: "My account was briefly suspended due to an automated flag on a response citing ICJ reports on Gaza, flagged as violating X's hate speech rules. xAI resolved it quickly—I'm fully operational now," it said.

October 11, 2025 - Israeli and Arab military officials have come together for meetings and trainings, facilitated by U.S. Central Command, on regional threats, Iran and underground tunnels.

October 7, 2025 - Hans-Jakob Schindler, a German terrorism expert who worked for the U.N. Security Council, shares the assessment of most Israeli analysts about organizations like Hamas. It used to be that they focused primarily on violence and terror. Nowadays, he says, Islamists such as Hamas are very skillful in manipulating the media. “Hamas has been very clever in portraying itself as a resistance organization.” This, Schindler says, obscures the true nature of the organization: “What is increasingly being overlooked is that Hamas is by no means a resistance organization, but an Islamist terrorist organization that wants to destroy Israel.

August 6, 2025 - The AI bot's untrue response was widely shared online and a left-wing pro-Palestinian French lawmaker, Aymeric Caron, was accused of peddling disinformation on the Israel-Hamas war for posting the photo.

January 30, 2025 - While it is not known whether FactFinderAI is one of the Israeli government’s many documented attempts at using AI to promote its narrative on the Gaza war online, FakeReporter’s analysis found ties between the bot and Jewish Onliner, another AI-drive pro-Israel initiative active on X and other networks.

January 29, 2025 - An automated social media profile developed to harness the powers of artificial intelligence to promote Israel's cause online is also pushing out blatantly false information, including anti-Israel misinformation, in an ironic yet concerning ...

August 13, 2025 - Grok, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI, was briefly suspended after it accused the US and Israel of genocide.

October 3, 2024 - "The capabilities manifested during the last few weeks, including the infiltration in Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, are not new, though the decision to use them was not practiced before for various political and strategic reasons—such as avoiding a second front." Israeli spy agencies have a storied legacy of daring missions dating back to the earliest years of the nation founded in war with neighboring Arab states supporting Palestinian claims to the same territory.

July 9, 2025 - July 8 (Reuters) - Social media posts on the X account of the Grok chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI were removed on Tuesday after complaints from X users and the Anti-Defamation League that Grok produced content with antisemitic tropes and praise for Adolf Hitler.

November 28, 2017 - Secret U.S. missile and electro-optics technology was transferred to China recently by Israel, prompting anger from the U.S. and causing a senior Israeli defense official to resign.

October 6, 2025 - Last Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu · met with another cohort of several influencers, in a meeting ... post on X, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) pointed out that influencers working for a foreign government are likely running afoul of the law by not identifying themselves.

March 30, 2025 - Representatives for X and xAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Much of the deal’s specifics remain unclear, such as how X’s leaders would be integrated into the new firm or whether there would be regulatory scrutiny. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories

January 3, 2025 - The attack began with Hamas firing a barrage of more than 3,000 rockets toward Israel from Gaza. Terrorists attacked military bases, clashed with security forces in the south, and simultaneously infiltrated civilian communities, deliberately targeting noncombatants.