Australia’s online safety regulator warns X that child abuse material is more accessible on the platform than any other mainstream service

Australia's eSafety Commission warned X in January that child sexual exploitation material is “particularly systemic” on the platform and more accessible than on any other mainstream service, in a letter obtained by Guardian Australia under freedom of information laws. The warning came amid the Grok sexualized image generation scandal, in which X's AI chatbot was used to generate sexualized images of women and children, and noted that despite X's bot crackdown in October 2025, harmful hashtags remain prevalent on the platform. On the same day the letter was published, xAI was sued by three teenage girls alleging that Grok used photos of them to produce and distribute child sexual abuse material.