French Police Search X Office In Paris, Summons Elon Musk For Questioning

In Brief

French constabulary and Europol searched nan section agency of X, the Paris prosecutor’s agency announced connected Tuesday. 

The ambush is portion of an ongoing investigation launched successful 2025 connected allegations of “fraudulent extraction of data” of an automated information processing strategy “by an organized group.”

French prosecutors’ cybercrime portion said nan investigation has now been expanded to screen different alleged crimes, including: complicity successful possession and distribution of kid intersexual maltreatment material; privateness violations; and Holocaust denial.

The description of nan investigation comes arsenic X and its proprietor Elon Musk faces wide criticism for allowing its Grok AI to beryllium utilized to make non-consensual imagery, including kid maltreatment imagery, of different group connected its platform.

Musk, who bought X (previously Twitter) successful 2022, and erstwhile X main executive Linda Yaccarino were summoned for questioning connected April 20. Unnamed X staffers were besides summoned for nan aforesaid week, per nan prosecutor’s announcement. 

X and spokespeople for eMed, where Yaccarino is now nan main executive, did not respond to TechCrunch’s petition for comment.

When reached for comment, Maylis De Roeck, a spokesperson for nan Paris prosecutor’s office, confirmed nan ambush successful a statement. “The Public Prosecutor’s Office’s nonsubjective is yet to guarantee level X’s compliance pinch French law, fixed that it operates wrong nan nationalist territory,” nan connection read.

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