Paris Prosecutors Summon Elon Musk To Appear After Raid On X's French Offices

Prosecutors successful Paris said they asked Elon Musk to look for questioning arsenic portion of a investigation into nan distribution of intersexual deepfakes and Holocaust denial content, aft searching X's offices successful nan French superior early Tuesday.

The hunt was carried retired by nan prosecutor's cybercrime unit, successful business pinch French police's ain cybercrime portion and Europol, nan agency said connected X.

A voluntary summons was issued for Musk and former X CEO Linda Yacarino to look and reply questions astir nan platform's adherence to French law.

The prosecutor's agency said it was investigation imaginable criminal offences including complicity successful nan possession and distribution of "child pornography images," nan usurpation of individual authorities done nan procreation of "sexual deepfakes," nan denial of "crimes against humanity," and nan alleged fraudulent extraction of information from an automated processing system, arsenic portion of an organized gang.

"The voluntary interviews pinch nan managers should alteration them to explicate their position connected nan facts and, wherever applicable, nan compliance measures envisaged," nan prosecutor's agency said successful a statement.

Musk and Yacarino person been summoned to look successful Paris successful nan week of April 20. It's unclear what ineligible powers, if any, prosecutors person to compel them to appear.

The Paris prosecutor's agency added that it was shutting its ain relationship connected X and would pass connected LinkedIn and Instagram instead.

X did not instantly respond to NBC News' petition for comment.

But nan company’s Global Government Affairs relationship has antecedently criticized nan French investigation arsenic “politically motivated” and said nan institution “categorically denies” nan allegations.

X has agelong faced governmental unit from European countries and from nan European Union itself for its alleged power connected elections.

Last twelvemonth nan E.U. fined X nan balanced of $140 million for failing to combat dislike reside and misinformation. Last period nan 27-nation bloc launched a general investigation into intersexual deepfakes created by X's Grok chatbot.

The probe came a time aft Musk said Monday that SpaceX has acquired his artificial-intelligence startup xAI successful a record-setting woody that mixed nan rocket-and-satellite institution pinch nan shaper of nan Grok chatbot.