Marie Goldman

Marie Goldman

Liberal Democrat — Chelmsford

Speaking in the House of Commons on 12 January 2026

Debate

Social Media: Non-consensual Sexual Deepfakes

Contribution

I welcome the statement, but an idea has been advanced by some that X moving Grok to a premium service somehow means that those at X are blinking, and I think that is for the birds. I think it was a deliberate strategy on the part of those at X to create a content generation tool that is disgusting but that drove up demand, to wait until the demand reached a critical mass, and then to make it a premium product so that it could make money from it. X is continuing to make money from violence against women and girls, which is what this is: it cannot be denied. The violence against women and girls strategy, released just before Christmas, stated that the work would “ensure that the UK has one of the most robust responses to perpetrators of VAWG in the world.” May I gently ask, given that other countries have already banned Grok, whether this is really the most robust response that we could have?

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