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How Musk Monetised Deepfake Abuse

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Amer Altaf
Jan 10, 2026
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Editorial illustration showing Elon Musk's silhouette against a dark background with the X logo fragmenting into pixelated faces representing deepfake victims

Why it matters: Elon Musk’s response to Grok generating thousands of non-consensual sexual images – including of children – wasn’t to fix the tool. It was to put it behind a paywall. This transforms …

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