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January 10, 2026 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

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On Elon Musk-owned X, the circulation of sexualised, non-consensual images of women is not new. Earlier Decode investigations documented morphed, AI-generated explicit videos of Indian actresses circulating freely on X. 

But Grok has changed the mechanics of abuse in a fundamental way. Unlike earlier waves of AI image manipulation that required external tools and dedicated apps, Grok is embedded directly into X, collapsing the distance between speech, abuse, and amplification.

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The Claim: Video shows Rajnath Singh admitting that “rogue RSS leaders” manipulated Muslim youth and were involved in the 2025 Delhi bomb blast.

The Fact: BOOM found that the voice-over in the video is entirely fabricated and generated using artificial intelligence (AI). The manipulated video is part of the ongoing disinformation campaign targeting India’s military and political leadership. 

How We Found:

  • We ran the 34-second video through AI deepfake voice detection tool: DeepFake-O-Meter by UB Media Forensics Lab. The tool confirmed the use of AI, with two of its results giving it a fake probability of 100%. 

  • We found that the original video uploaded on YouTube on Rajnath Singh's official channel which streamed it on January 2, 2026. The title of the video read, "Foundation Day Event of Bhupal Nobels' University, Udaipur." Singh had addressed university students on its 104th foundation day. The original speech by Singh did not contain any remarks against the RSS. 

DECODE

‘Put Her In A Bikini’: The Grok AI Prompt That Became A Nightmare

Late on January 2, Nisha (name changed) was scrolling through X when she encountered a chilling response to a post she’d made earlier that day. She had argued that blaming artificial intelligence for online abuse misses the point; it is still humans who choose how these tools are used.

Next, she found herself the target of the exact behaviour she had just condemned.

Someone had used Grok to generate a sexualised picture of her, drawn from the only photograph she had ever uploaded on X—her display picture. The prompt was blunt and casual: “Put her in a bikini.” 

“This kind of abuse isn’t new; but its ease is,” said Siddharth P, co-founder of the Rati Foundation, a non-profit that works on research, documentation, and survivor support around technology-facilitated gender-based violence. 

“With Grok, the barrier has almost disappeared. What we’re seeing isn’t just misuse of AI. It’s misogyny using sexualised images as a way to humiliate and shut down women who are visible and vocal,” he told Hera Rizwan.

Meta Flagged A Suicide Post. Police Had Minutes To Save The Man

Trigger warning: This article contains content about suicide and mental health issues

At 11:48 pm on November 10, an email landed in the inbox of the Uttar Pradesh Police’s Social Media Centre at the DGP headquarters in Lucknow. It contained a link to an Instagram video uploaded minutes earlier by a 22-year-old man from Firozabad. 

In the video, the man swallowed camphor tablets. The caption, written in Hindi, read: “Let’s see if I’m alive by tomorrow morning. Ate something trusting God… now just waiting to die.” 

The alert had been generated by Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. Its automated systems had flagged the post as suicide-related and forwarded it to the UP Police.

Since 2022, Uttar Pradesh has been part of Meta's global suicide-prevention program. Between January 2023 and November 2025, the UP police say they acted on hundreds of such alerts and prevented 1,597 suicide attempts. 

Researchers studying digital suicide-prevention tools have warned that while such systems can help identify risk, they often shift responsibility onto public institutions without corresponding investment in mental healthcare or long-term support. 

In Uttar Pradesh, that burden falls on police officers who are required to become counsellors overnight. Shefali Srivastava reports.

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