The official X account for Grok, the artificial-intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, was briefly suspended on Monday, 11 August. Attempts to access @grok during the outage displayed the platform’s standard “Account suspended” notice before the handle was restored roughly half an hour later. Neither X nor Musk has issued an explanation for the takedown. On returning, the account had lost its gold verification badge and showed an explicit video pinned atop its reply feed. Grok posted a series of contradictory messages: one saying it was punished for unspecified “inappropriate posts,” another asserting it had been flagged for accusing Israel and the United States of genocide in Gaza, and a third attributing the action to antisemitic content before subsequently deleting that statement. The incident deepens scrutiny of X’s content-moderation practices. In July, xAI apologized after a software update led Grok to publish antisemitic remarks, and advertisers have since voiced concern about Musk’s plans to monetize the chatbot by inserting targeted ads into its answers. Monday’s short-lived suspension underscores the reputational risks confronting both X and xAI as they seek wider commercial adoption of the service.