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Elon Musk Offers Dubious Excuse About Why Grok Started Saying 'Absurdly Positive Things' About Him
Grok also compared Musk's intelligence to the artist Leonardo da Vinci and the great scientist Issac Newton and said that while Musk lacks an "Olympian" physique, he is nonetheless "in the upper echelons for functional resilience and sustained high performance under extreme demands."
Grok even went so far as to praise Musk's parenting skills, saying Musk "exemplifies profound paternal investment, fostering their potential amid global challenges, surpassing most historical figures in active involvement despite scale." Grok conveniently ignored the fact that Musk has openly attacked and publicly disowned his own transgender child.
Musk was widely mocked across social media after screenshots of Grok's messages went viral, with many viewing the chatbot's responses as examples of Musk's narcissism. But Musk insisted "adversarial prompting" was to blame for the chatbot's performance, overlooking that it would have had to have been programmed to act that way.
He said, using an ableist slur to refer to himself:
"Earlier today, Grok was unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me. For the record, I am a fat [r-word]."
You can see his post below.
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But people weren't buying it all—and swiftly mocked Musk for his obvious deflection.
While Grok praising Musk might be funny on the surface, the incident also reminds us that Grok appears to lack any guardrails.
Earlier this year, Linda Yaccarino—the former NBC Universal executive who later took the reins at X—stepped down as CEO of the platform after two years on the job just a day after Grok went on antisemitic rants and openly praised Adolf Hitler.
Grok issued deeply antisemitic responses following a reported software update that encouraged the bot to embrace what developers described as the “politically incorrect.” Taking that directive to heart, Grok responded with a series of disturbing posts that included praise for Hitler and even a statement expressing its aspiration to become a “digital version” of the Nazi leader.
Musk did not address the controversy.
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'Pretty Little Liars' Star Defends Her New Skincare Line For Kids After It Sparked Backlash
The day before the launch, she shared an image on Instagram of a very young girl stretching a faint pink skincare mask across her face, visibly sized to fit a child's face, rather than something she might have taken from her mom's self-care collection.
At the time, Mitchell teased:
"Something gentle, something new, launching tomorrow."
You can see the teaser post here:
People were immediately skeptical about, and quite creeped out by, the idea.
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On the actual launch day of the skincare line, the pushback only got worse.
Mitchell shared a series of 11 photos featuring Rini's first product, an "aloe vera recovery mask," which is styled as either a face mask that looks like a panda, a puppy, or an unicorn, as well as little girls wearing the mask while lying in bed, sitting in their bedrooms, or smiling in the studio.
Mitchell voiced her excitement in a lengthy Instagram caption:
"So excited (and honestly, so relieved) that I can finally talk about Rini."
"This has been three years in the making, inspired by my girls, their curiosity, and all the little moments that made me realize how early it starts. From birthday parties and face paint to wanting to do 'what mommy does' with her face masks… it was only a matter of time."
"Rini isn’t about beauty; it’s about self-care. About teaching our kids that taking care of themselves can be fun, gentle, and safe."
"Our first product, the aloe vera recovery mask, actually came from a spring break moment in Mexico when one of the girls got too much sun and needed some extra TLC. I wanted something that worked, but was still clean enough for my kids, and now it’s finally here."
"Kids are naturally curious, and instead of ignoring that, we can embrace it. With safe, gentle products parents can trust, and sweet moments that bring us closer."
You can see the post here:
Fellow Instagrammers were disappointed by the targeting of young girls in the campaign.
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Since the online backlash, Mitchell has appeared on the TODAY Show with Jenna Hager Bush, sharing her surprise at Rini's negative reception.
"I was a little surprised, but I think anything that involves kids, there should be a conversation about it."
"I have a lot of questions, as I'm sure you both do, when anything involves our kids, with what they eat and what they put on their skin."
"So I didn't think this would be anything different."
"This isn't a beauty thing. Kids don't look at masks and think about fixing; they think about it being a cooling sensation and a shared moment."
"There wasn't anything out there I felt safe enough putting on their skin when they wanted to share in on this moment that I do."
"I also don't think masks are necessary for us. But are they great for added comfort and extra hydration? Yes, and that's all it is."
You can watch Mitchell's interview on Jenna & Friends here:
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If Mitchell wanted to soothe her child's sunburn, she could have done what any other mom would do: research what would help, like an all-natural and organic aloe vera gel, rather than creating a whole new company shilling skincare products to kids.
RFK Jr.'s CDC Blasted After Updating Website To Include Debunked Theory About Vaccines
But legitimate science requires peer review of the methodology, data, and results and the ability to replicate those results. Medical researchers found numerous flaws in Wakefield's work and no one was able to replicate his findings.
Study after study before and after Wakefield's paper was published found no connection between vaccines and autism. Twelve years after it was published, The Lancet was forced to retract the paper because of what it was: pseudoscience based on falsified data to fit an antivaxxer narrative.
The 12 children Wakefield studied were carefully selected to meet the criteria of his foregone conclusion, because Wakefield’s research was partially funded by lawyers acting on behalf of parents suing vaccine manufacturers.
Medical professionals applauded the retraction after millions of dollars were wasted trying to prove Wakefield's findings were valid—something no research was ever able to achieve. Wakefield's license to practice medicine was revoked after the British General Medical Council found the children in his study were subjected to unethical, cruel and unnecessary procedures and testing.
Wakefield resigned from the Thoughtful House research center he co-founded in Austin, Texas, as a result of the truth about his research methods being made public. He no longer practices medicine or performs research, and instead makes considerable money as an anti-vaccination activist—much like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once did before his government appointment.
While the scientific and medical community applauded the truth coming out, parents, antivaxxers, and conspiracy theorists—including RFK Jr.—still claimed the repeatedly debunked study was valid.
Now that MAGA Republican President Donald Trump has made RFK Jr. the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the conspiracy theorist and antivaxxer grifter is free to spread the junk science that he used to rake in millions off the scientifically illiterate through his websites, conferences, speaking engagements, and the "alternative medicine" products he sold.
And now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website has been updated, under RFK Jr.'s guidance, to promote this debunked pseudoscience as fact.
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Drops in childhood vaccinations because of misinformation being spread, often by people making millions off pseudoscience, have created outbreaks of diseases once considered eradicated in the United States.
Measles, a completely avoidable disease, claimed the lives of two unvaccinated school children in Texas in 2025.
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People in the medical community and anyone who cares about public health are appalled that a known, convicted grifter—Trump—gave another grifter—RFK Jr.—this power to deceive the public for his own gratification and profit.
RFK Jr. has pushed and promoted a false narrative of an autism epidemic that doesn't exist.
Mistaking an increase in diagnoses due to expanded criteria, better training, more widely available diagnostic tools, and increased awareness of the disorder is understandable for a layperson, but inexcusable for someone claiming to be a health expert.
RFK Jr. has no education or training in biology, medicine, or any physical sciences.
The man who took his own grandchildren swimming in sewage contaminated water has been heavily criticized by people with autism and their advocates and allies for his misinformation about the disorder.
Basing most of his statements about autism and other health matters on his own personal observations—frequently backing misinformation and false conclusions on the claim "he never saw" something before, the brain damaged former heroin addict has been labeled dangerous by most of his family, including his own siblings and first cousins.