{"id":12527,"date":"2026-04-22T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/12527\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:08:08","slug":"matt-le-tissier-gets-into-conspiracy-row-with-grok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/12527\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Le Tissier gets into conspiracy row with Grok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo rather than just reason you went straight to conspiracy theories, you\u2019ve clearly been programmed to do that as you said you don\u2019t think for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you been programmed to spout government propaganda or can you think for yourself?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grok, in one response to Le Tissier, admitted the former footballer had a point about chemicals being brought up unprompted and said the reply was because of the way plane trails are discussed online.<\/p>\n<p>Le Tissier, who played for Southampton from 1986 to 2002, has been outspoken on social media on various theories after hanging up his boots, although in an <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2022\/02\/09\/matt-le-tissier-exclusive-soccer-saturday-mates-call-covid-conspiracy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Telegraph Sport<\/a> in 2022 he pushed back at being called a \u201cconspiracy theorist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He left his role as a pundit and analyst for Sky Sports that year, telling The Rob Moore podcast: \u201cWithin five seconds I was told there was no more work for me at Sky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had about seven months left to run on my contract, but I was told that I wouldn\u2019t be needed anymore. They didn\u2019t really give a particular reason, they just said \u2018the show was going in a different direction\u2019 \u2013 they were the words I think they used.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also stepped aside from his role as a Southampton ambassador in 2022 after deleting social-media posts <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2022\/04\/06\/matt-le-tissier-resigns-southampton-ambassador-sharing-ukraine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suggesting media manipulation<\/a> in the reporting on the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy views are my own and always have been, and it\u2019s important to take this step today to avoid any confusion,\u201d Le Tissier wrote. \u201cI will always remain a fan and supporter of everything Saints. I can, however, see that due to recent events it\u2019s important to separate the work I believe in from my relationship with the club.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSo rather than just reason you went straight to conspiracy theories, you\u2019ve clearly been programmed to do that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25,9886,2483,6364,9975,9929,900,9430,9976,2899],"class_list":{"0":"post-12527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xai","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-conspiracy-theories","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-grok","12":"tag-premier-league","13":"tag-southampton-fc","14":"tag-sport","15":"tag-standard","16":"tag-us-content","17":"tag-xai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}