Grok — Elon Musk 's flagship artificial intelligence assistant created by his in-house xAI — was instructed by its engineers to censor sources that accuse Musk of being a mass misinformation spreader, according to its own public-facing instructions.

( NewsNation) — Elon Musk’s AI company, Grok 3, appears to have briefly censored criticism of Musk and President Trump.

But on Monday, Grok got out the rags and brushes. With the same query came a much more nuanced answer: Six paragraphs of tap-dancing around the “complex question” that depends on the measure of “misinformation,” concluding that “no single entity is universally agreed upon as the definitive answer.”