Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/apple-threat-remove-grok-app-store-deepfake-letter-musk-x-ai-rcna331677

Article

  • Apple threatened to remove Grok from App Store over deepfake generation concerns
  • Letter details Apple’s ultimatum to xAI regarding policy compliance
  • Article is paywalled at NBC News

Discussion

  • Thread thin; main discussion was about paywalls and archive.ph being down
  • One commenter suggested Musk’s Trump ties are the only reason Apple didn’t just pull it

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Added Apr 15, 2026
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