India, Jan. 11 -- Social media platform X has blocked 3,500 posts and removed nearly 600 accounts after the Centre flagged widespread circulation of obscene content on the platform, NDTV reported, quoting government sources.

The action comes in response to a notice issued last week by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), which warned X Corp over the misuse of its artificial intelligence tools to generate and share explicit material.

According to the ministry, users were exploiting X's AI assistant, Grok, to create fake accounts and produce obscene, nude and explicit images and videos of women in a derogatory and vulgar manner.

The content, officials said, was being generated through prompts, image manipulatio...