French police search X office in Paris, summons Elon Musk for questioning

In Brief

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

The raid is portion of an ongoing probe 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 the probe has present been expanded to screen different alleged crimes, including: complicity successful possession and organisation of kid intersexual maltreatment material; privateness violations; and Holocaust denial.

The enlargement of the probe 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 radical connected its platform.

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

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

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

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