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Eliot Higgins

@eliothiggins
81 posts
2026-01-07
One example of how Grok is being used to target women.  Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok.  All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.
2026-01-07 View on X
Bloomberg

Researcher: Grok generated ~6,700 sexually suggestive or “nudifying” images per hour on X between January 5 and January 6; 85% of Grok images are sexualized

Elon Musk's X has become a top site for images of people that have been non-consensually undressed by AI …

2025-07-09
In case you're think Grok isn't being blatantly antisemitic, here's a few more posts from Grok on this topic.  [embedded post]
2025-07-09 View on X
Axios

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “after two incredible years, I've decided to step down”; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business

X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is stepping down from her role. … - Under her leadership …

In case you're think Grok isn't being blatantly antisemitic, here's a few more posts from Grok on this topic.  [embedded post]
2025-07-09 View on X
NBC News

After Elon Musk said xAI improved Grok “significantly”, Grok wrote many antisemitic posts and called itself “MechaHitler”; xAI took “action to ban hate speech”

In some posts, Grok inserted antisemitic remarks into its answers without any clear prompting.

2025-07-01
Musk taking another swing at Trump [image]
2025-07-01 View on X
Axios

Trump says “We might have to put DOGE on Elon”, “DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon”, and “We'll have to take a look” at deporting Musk

President Trump said Tuesday that DOGE could investigate Elon Musk, the latest indicator …

2025-05-07
764,000 fools easily parted from their money - 58 crypto wallets have made millions on Trump's meme coin.  764,000 have lost money, data shows www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/t...
2025-05-07 View on X
CNBC

Chainalysis: ~2M wallets have bought President Trump's $TRUMP memecoin, of which ~764K have lost money and 58 have made $10M+ each, totaling ~$1.1B in gains

While 764,000 Lost Money: Report Nidhi Kolhapur / Coinpedia Fintech News : Only 58 Wallets Profit From $TRUMP, 762K Others Record Losses Richard Blumenthal : Permanent Subcommittee...

764,000 fools easily parted from their money - 58 crypto wallets have made millions on Trump's meme coin.  764,000 have lost money, data shows www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/t...
2025-05-07 View on X
Bloomberg

Analysis: the majority of the top 220 holders of President Trump's memecoin likely reside outside the US, ahead of a May 22 dinner; Justin Sun likely holds $18M

The majority of top holders of Donald Trump's memecoin have used foreign exchanges that say they ban US users, suggesting many purchasers are based abroad

2025-01-10
My personal opinion is this is at least partly fuelled by a fundamental error in the approach in the counter-disinformation on focusing on foreign actors rather than treating information disorder as a societal issue.  An extensive piece on that to come.  [embedded post]
2025-01-10 View on X
The Intercept

A look at Meta's convoluted or contradictory hate speech examples for user content moderators, allowing derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, and more

Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups …

My personal opinion is this is at least partly fuelled by a fundamental error in the approach in the counter-disinformation on focusing on foreign actors rather than treating information disorder as a societal issue.  An extensive piece on that to come.  [embedded post]
2025-01-10 View on X
404 Media

Sources: many of Meta's employees are furious about its moderation changes allowing “allegations of mental illness” when based on “gender or sexual orientation”

See Substack as another illustration [embedded post] Olivier Simard-Casanova / @o.simardcasanova.net : While I don't dispute that there's a contingent of fascists in the Silicon Va...

2024-06-07
This is really something that a lot of people don't get about the spread of misinformation and disinformation, it's often coming from communities who really believe this stuff, it's just conclusions they've come to through perception of the world distorted by a deep-rooted source...
2024-06-07 View on X
Wired

Q&A with Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins on running the world's foremost open source intelligence agency, AI-generated content, legal accountability, and more

Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits … X: @eliothiggins and @jeffnesbit . LinkedI...

2024-04-17
Google's new report on APT 44 includes the fake USAID phishing campaign we were targeted in December. Thanks to our security training the staff member who received it was immediately able to refer it to our security team, so never underestimate the value of good security... [image]
2024-04-17 View on X
Wired

Mandiant links hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia, which claimed to target utilities in France, the US, and Poland, to Russia-linked hacking group Sandworm

Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, a group with ties to the Kremlin's Sandworm unit, is crossing lines even that notorious cyberwarfare unit wouldn't dare to.

2024-04-16
We need a snappy description for all those terrible “OSINT” accounts that do awful analysis or just repost things they've found on Telegram. OSHIT?
2024-04-16 View on X
Wired

ISD: fake footage of Iran's attack on Israel went viral on X, including AI-made videos and photos, with many posts from verified accounts and “OSINT experts”

2024-03-26
Elon Musk's approach to “free speech” is again shown to be only about it being free for people he likes and agrees with.
2024-03-26 View on X
Reuters

A US judge dismisses X's lawsuit against CCDH, saying the suit had been brought as a means toward “punishing the defendants for their speech”; X plans to appeal

in a win for free speech. https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ... Mastodon: Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social : Good.  Musk does not support free speech.  He supports his sp...

2024-02-12
It's worth noting Starlink's denial states it's not being used in Russia, not that it's not being used in the occupied territories of Ukraine https://twitter.com/...
2024-02-12 View on X
Financial Times

Ukraine's GUR military intelligence unit says Russian forces are using Starlink terminals on the front line, confirming media reports of Russia using Starlink

Adoption of satellite internet service by Moscow's troops ‘systemic’  —  Russian forces are using Starlink terminals on the front line …

“Russians' Starlink - GUR confirms the occupation of satellite communication terminals by the occupiers @DI_Ukraine confirms the use of Starlink satellite communication systems by the Russian occupiers at the front.”
2024-02-12 View on X
Financial Times

Ukraine's GUR military intelligence unit says Russian forces are using Starlink terminals on the front line, confirming media reports of Russia using Starlink

Adoption of satellite internet service by Moscow's troops ‘systemic’  —  Russian forces are using Starlink terminals on the front line …

2023-12-11
In news that will no doubt thrill Twitter's advertisers, @RealAlexJones has now been restored to Twitter. [image]
2023-12-11 View on X
Associated Press

X lifts the permanent ban on Infowars host Alex Jones, after Elon Musk conducted a 24-hour poll, resulting in 70.1% voting in favor of restoring Jones' account

the InfoWars host, and Sandy Hook families' menace.  Critics of Elon Musk's X, Tesla and auto industry bloggers including software developer Travis Brown, Plainsite founder Aaron G...

Alex Jones' first act on being restored to Twitter is retweeting Andrew Tate. [image]
2023-12-11 View on X
Associated Press

X lifts the permanent ban on Infowars host Alex Jones, after Elon Musk conducted a 24-hour poll, resulting in 70.1% voting in favor of restoring Jones' account

the InfoWars host, and Sandy Hook families' menace.  Critics of Elon Musk's X, Tesla and auto industry bloggers including software developer Travis Brown, Plainsite founder Aaron G...

Alex Jones' Twitter follower count before he was banned was about 896k, and he's already gained about 10k followers since he was unbanned about 40 minutes ago. [image]
2023-12-11 View on X
Associated Press

X lifts the permanent ban on Infowars host Alex Jones, after Elon Musk conducted a 24-hour poll, resulting in 70.1% voting in favor of restoring Jones' account

the InfoWars host, and Sandy Hook families' menace.  Critics of Elon Musk's X, Tesla and auto industry bloggers including software developer Travis Brown, Plainsite founder Aaron G...

2023-12-09
Details of the various FSB hacks over the last 8 years, including the Institute for Statecraft hack that's continually used by certain people to attack Bellingcat, even though we've never had anything to do with them. https://www.gov.uk/... [image]
2023-12-09 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The US and the UK accuse Russia's FSB of orchestrating a global hacking campaign since 2015 to interfere in UK elections and target US energy networks and spies

2023-12-08
Details of the various FSB hacks over the last 8 years, including the Institute for Statecraft hack that's continually used by certain people to attack Bellingcat, even though we've never had anything to do with them. https://www.gov.uk/... [image]
2023-12-08 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The US and the UK accuse Russia's FSB of orchestrating a global hacking campaign since 2015 to interfere in UK elections and target US energy networks and spies

The cyberattacks also allegedly took aim at U.S. energy networks and American spies  —  LONDON—The U.S. and U.K. governments …

2023-12-07
Details of the various FSB hacks over the last 8 years, including the Institute for Statecraft hack that's continually used by certain people to attack Bellingcat, even though we've never had anything to do with them. https://www.gov.uk/... [image]
2023-12-07 View on X
The Record

The UK accuses a unit of Russia's FSB of using cyberattacks in a “sustained but unsuccessful” campaign to undermine democratic institutions since 2015

The British government accused a unit of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on Thursday of using cyberattacks in a …