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RestrictedAccess openCWC used here26 named duties4 live proceedings

Open access. 19 named illegal duties + 7 child-only duties, from X’s own UK page. Ofcom opened a formal Grok investigation on 12 January 2026. Removal volume is still not broken out.

Access

Available

Can ordinary users load X?

Removal requests

Not broken out

Folded into All others · July–December 2024

Court & agency files

4 still live or unresolved

What is actually restricted

Named categories from X’s own country pages and statutory lists — not a live feed of every withheld post. Totals without a split are how most of the official report still reads.

What X itself says it restricts for every UK user

Copied from X’s UK Online Safety page — not inferred from the transparency totals. The H2 2024 global table does not break out UK removal volume (it sits in All others). These are the named illegal-content duties X says it geo-restricts in the United Kingdom.

Live fight
Intimate image abuse
Live Ofcom file. Opened 12 January 2026 over Grok sexualised deepfakes of real people.
Live fight
Child sexual exploitation and abuse
In the same Ofcom investigation. Ofcom says some standalone-chatbot image creation sits outside the Act — the investigation is about what spread on X.
Terrorist content
Encouraging or assisting self-harm
Encouraging or assisting suicide
Harassment, stalking, threats, abuse, hate offences
Drugs and psychoactive substances
Firearms and other weapons
Unlawful immigration
Human trafficking
Sexual exploitation of adults
Extreme pornography
Cyberflashing
Fraud and other financial offences
Foreign interference
False communications
A named OSA offence. Not a general ‘misinformation’ filter — it is the statutory false-communications crime.
Animal welfare
Obscene content showing torture of humans or animals
Epilepsy trolling

Online Safety Act 2023 · X UK duties page

Restricted from minors in the UK — not from adults

X’s own child-safety list under the Act. Adults in the UK can still see this material unless it is also illegal. That distinction is the point.

Minors only
Encouraging or assisting eating disorders
Minors only
Body-stigma content
Minors only
Depression content
Minors only
Bullying content
Minors only
Harmful substances
Minors only
Dangerous stunts and challenges
Minors only
Adult nudity harmful to children

Online Safety Act 2023 · X UK duties page

What is still not listed

X published the named UK duty list. It folded UK removal counts into All others. The live named proceeding is Ofcom’s 12 January 2026 Grok investigation — no findings yet.

Court and agency docket

Named proceedings that were public as of 15 August 2026 — cases in court, regulator files that can go to court, and statutes that would create new takedown powers. This is not a live court feed. Each card shows the last public date we have.

Full docket

Live or unresolved

PendingRegulatorUpdated 3 February 2026

Ofcom investigation of X — Grok sexualised imagery

Ofcom (provisional decision, then possible High Court review)

Ofcom opened a formal investigation into whether X assessed and mitigated the risk of Grok-generated sexual deepfakes of real people — including children — spreading on the service, and whether it took them down quickly. On 3 February 2026 Ofcom said it is gathering evidence under binding information notices, working with the ICO, and that standalone chatbot image-creation sits partly outside the Act. No findings and no provisional decision yet.

At stake

Whether X breached UK illegal-content duties on intimate-image abuse and CSEA. Fines, and in the extreme a court-ordered UK block, are the statutory ceiling — none of that has been decided.

Opened 12 January 2026 (formal investigation); first contact 5 January 2026

Ofcom — Investigation into X and scope of the Online Safety Act

PendingRegulatorUpdated 3 February 2026

ICO investigation of X and xAI — Grok personal-data processing

Information Commissioner’s Office (UK GDPR / DPA 2018)

The ICO opened formal investigations into X Internet Unlimited Company and X.AI LLC over processing of personal data in Grok and its potential to produce harmful sexualised image and video content. Parallel to Ofcom, not a speech-ranking case. No findings yet.

At stake

UK data-protection consequences for Grok image generation of real people.

Opened 3 February 2026

ICO statement, 3 February 2026

Active orderRegulatorUpdated 15 August 2026

Online Safety Act 2023 — illegal-content and child-safety duties

Ofcom (judicial review in the High Court)

The Act is in force. X’s own UK page lists 19 illegal-content categories it geo-restricts and 7 child-harmful categories it restricts from minors. Ofcom can fine up to 10% of qualifying worldwide revenue or apply to court to block a service. There is still no published X-vs-Ofcom merits judgment on a specific takedown notice.

At stake

Statutory, named removal duties inside the UK — appealable by judicial review.

Opened 2023 (Act); illegal-content codes 2025; child-safety 25 July 2025

Online Safety Act 2023 / X UK duties page

Active orderAgency orderUpdated 10 July 2026

Ofcom Category 1 designation of X

Ofcom Register of Categorised Services

Ofcom listed X (X Internet Unlimited Company) as a Category 1 social media service. Category 1 adds duties on user empowerment, identity verification, news-publisher and journalistic content, content of democratic importance, and freedom-of-expression assessments — on top of the illegal-content and child-safety codes already in force. Additional-duties codes were out for consultation when the register landed.

At stake

The extra Category 1 rulebook. Journalism and democratic-importance content get more protection, not less, under those duties.

Decided 10 July 2026 (register published)

Ofcom Register of Categorised Services

Missing a named file for United Kingdom?

Allowed and not allowed

What public sources currently show — not a live feed of every withheld post. Individual jurisdiction withholdings still only appear as a notice when opened from that country.

Jurisdiction withholdVerified source

19 named illegal-content duties inside the UK

X’s own UK Online Safety page lists the offences it geo-restricts for every UK user: terrorism, CSEA, intimate-image abuse, false communications, fraud, weapons, and 13 more. Country Withheld Content has been used in the UK. The H2 2024 global table does not publish a UK removal count.

Not allowed

The 19 named illegal categories on X’s UK duties page, including intimate-image abuse and CSEA — the subject of Ofcom’s open investigation.

Still allowed

X loads. There is no UK For You ranking filter. Journalism and content of democratic importance have extra Category 1 protections under the Act. Legal adult speech stays up for adults. Unactioned legal demands stay up.

Basis: Online Safety Act 2023 · Ofcom illegal-content codes (in force 2025)

X Help — United Kingdom Online Safety Information

Jurisdiction withholdVerified source

7 child-harmful categories — minors only

Separate from the illegal-content list. X says it restricts eating-disorder, body-stigma, depression, bullying, harmful-substance, dangerous-stunt, and adult-nudity material from UK minors. Adults are not the audience of this duty.

Not allowed

Those 7 categories, for UK accounts X treats as under 18.

Still allowed

The same material can remain visible to UK adults unless it is also illegal. This is not a nationwide political filter.

Basis: Online Safety Act 2023 · Ofcom child-safety duties (in force 25 July 2025)

X Help — United Kingdom Online Safety Information

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