By David Swan
Publication Date: 2025-12-16 00:42:00
The misinformation spread so widely that hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman was forced to stop it The Times of Israel reported.
“Someone invented a white man, an ‘IT professional’ named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it across the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites,” journalist Ben Collins wrote on Bluesky. “The real hero is a fruit stall owner named Ahmed al Ahmed.”
Grok spread misinformation about the Bondi massacre.Credit: xAI
Beyond the false hero narrative, Grok made bizarre mistakes on Sunday and Monday. When users showed the chatbot video of Ahmed attacking the shooter, they claimed the footage was “an old viral video of a man climbing a palm tree.” In another case, a photo of the injured Ahmed was claimed to be Israeli…
