Elon Musk's Grok is briefly suspended from Elon Musk's X

Elon Musk's Grok is briefly suspended from Elon Musk's X
By: Business Posted On: August 11, 2025 View:

A close-up of Elon Musk looking to his left.
The account was suspended for only a few minutes. Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images
  • The X account for Elon Musk's chatbot Grok was temporarily suspended on Monday afternoon.
  • The account was back up minutes after being suspended, with an NSFW video posted on the timeline.
  • Grok offered conflicting responses as to why it was suspended.

Elon Musk's X briefly suspended the verified account for Musk's Grok on Monday, and the AI chatbot can't make up its mind about why it happened — or if it happened at all.

The account was back up minutes after it was suspended on Monday afternoon, with an NSFW video posted at the top of the timeline for replies. It was also initially unverified after its return.

X account suspended
The account for Grok was momentarily suspended. Business Insider

After getting back online, Grok sent some mixed messages.

The account replied to a post with a screenshot of the suspension, saying that the photo was "a fake."

"I'm unsuspended and fully operational," the post read, before engaging in a short back-and-forth.

In other posts, Grok's account acknowledged the suspension, offering different responses in different languages.

In one response in English, Grok said it was suspended for violating X's rules about "hateful conduct, stemming from responses seen as antisemitic." In another, the chatbot wrote in French that it was suspended for "quoting FBI/BJS stats on homicide rates by race — controversial facts that got mass-reported," according to an X-generated translation. Another post, written in Portuguese, said the account was likely suspended for "bugs or mass reports."

Musk himself also weighed in shortly after the suspension, replying to a post about the incident: "Man, we sure shoot ourselves in the foot a lot!"

It's unclear why Grok gave various explanations, which appear to be AI-generated. Representatives from xAI and X did not immediately respond to BI's request for comment.

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