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The images drew regulatory action. French prosecutors raided X's Paris offices as part of a preliminary investigation and asked Elon Musk to attend voluntary interviews. Britain's data protection regulator opened a formal investigation into how personal data was handled, and Ofcom and the European Commission also opened probes. The chatbot later reversed its Holocaust-denial post and acknowledged the earlier reply was wrong. 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Root cause, trigger, responsible party and adversarial actor are not stated. Whether Grok had safeguards in place is under investigation, so no safeguard control other than D1 is recorded. Agent involvement and failure class are omitted because the sources describe a chatbot, not an autonomous agent. Country omitted because the incident spans several jurisdictions. The 2026-02-03 disclosure date is the article date, a judgement. Severity major is a judgement based on regulators involved. X and xAI announced measures but the sources do not specify them, so no remediation or control IDs are recorded. Intended use is taken from the developer's website as quoted by CBC. The claim that the scandal would not have happened with proper testing is an MP's opinion and is not recorded as fact. 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