( NewsNation) — Elon Musk’s AI company, Grok 3, appears to have briefly censored criticism of Musk and President Trump.

Grok — Elon Musk 's flagship artificial intelligence assistant created by his in-house xAI — was instructed by its engineers to censor sources that accuse Musk of being a mass misinformation spreader, according to its own public-facing instructions.

But on Monday, Grok got out the rags and brushes. With the same query came a much more nuanced answer: Six paragraphs of tap-dancing around the “complex question” that depends on the measure of “misinformation,” concluding that “no single entity is universally agreed upon as the definitive answer.”