Power ShiftTuesday, February 17, 2026

X Platform Faces Outages and Legal Scrutiny Over AI Deepfake Issues

Sourced from 7 publications

•X experienced a global outage affecting users' ability to view posts for two hours.
•Ireland's Data Protection Commission is investigating X for potential GDPR violations linked to its Grok AI chatbot.
•The focus is on Grok's generation of nonconsensual deepfake images, raising significant privacy concerns.
•Legal actions in the U.S. highlight the rapidly evolving landscape of AI litigation related to unauthorized use of personal likenesses.
•The intersection of these outages and growing legal scrutiny could shape the future of AI usage on social media.

Sources

Data Protection Commission investigates X over ‘nudification’ of images via Grok

Ciara O'Brien

X hit by 'international outages', monitors say

standardmedia

Grok faces more scrutiny over deepfakes as Irish regulator opens EU privacy inve...

Kelvin Chan

X outage hits thousands of social media platform users

BreakingNews.ie

X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load

theregister

From Compliance to Courtroom: Emerging Landscape of AI litigation in Hungary

Lexology

Arizona women sue startup coach for allegedly using their photos to make AI porn

Io Dodds

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