“Keir Starmer was a lot more lukewarm on his stance around regulating big tech,” said Adele Walton, a member of the nonprofit Online Safety Act Network. “The Grok scandal has really pushed him back in the direction of actually protecting vulnerable people.”

The United Kingdom’s online safety regulator announced Monday it was formally investigating X.

"While these images may be digital, the harm to victims is very real," Ocasio-Cortez said alongside Hilton at a press conference on Thursday.

Some NI Executive departments are keeping “under review” their subscriptions to social media site X.