‘Get Grok Gone’: Advocacy groups demand Apple and Google block X from app stores

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‘Get Grok Gone’: Advocacy groups demand Apple and Google block X from app stores

Published On : 2026-01-15

Two open letters are directed at Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. | Photo: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images X is awash with nonconsensual sexual deepfakes that blatantly violate Apple’s and Google’s policies, yet it and xAI’s Grok remain on both companies’ app stores. In open letters published Wednesday, a coalition of 28 advocacy groups, including women’s organizations and tech watchdogs, are demanding CEOs Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai grow spines and evict them. “Grok is being used to create mass amounts of nonconsensual intimate images (NCII), including child sexual abuse…

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