Ireland launches a data protection probe into Grok’s deepfakes.

Mahima Kapoor   DW17 February 2026
The “large-scale inquiry” is on behalf of the European Union and will probe whether the AI tool breached the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) said in a statement.

Ireland is taking the lead on the investigation since X’s European operations are headquartered in Dublin.