censorship

As TikTok grew, concerns about censorship, mental health harms, data privacy and national security escalated.

He introduced Grok as a safe and truthful alternative to what he accused competitors of building, “woke” chatbots prone to censorship.

He also expressed concerns as well as a little "weariness", when asked, about censorship, specifically with reference to comedy writer Graham Linehan's recent arrest for comments made online about trans people.

The model mirrors China's WeChat - central to daily life but also a tool of censorship and surveillance.

It said in a statement that the interruption was in rejection to "Zionist funding, censorship and complicity in our cultural institutions" over the Gaza war, including the MSO and the BBC.