German minister calls for EU legal steps over Grok images on Musk's X

Wolfram Weimer, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media of Germany, speaks in Berlin, Germany September 15, 2025. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/File Photo

BERLIN, Jan 6 (Reuters) - German ‌media minister Wolfram Weimer urged the European Commission on Tuesday to take legal action to stop ‌what he called the "industrialisation of sexual harassment" taking place on Elon Musk's social media platform ‌X.

Weimer joins other European officials and bodies, including the European Union's executive body, in raising concerns about a surge in nonconsensual imagery on the platform.