The raid pertains to an investigation launched into the social media website in January 2025.
French cybercrime prosecutors have raided X’s workplaces within the nation, and summoned the social media platform’s proprietor Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino for questioning.
“A search is being carried out at X’s French workplaces by the Paris prosecutor’s workplace cybercrime unit”, a translated put up from the Paris prosecutor’s workplace on X learn. The put up is not viewable after the workplace additionally closed its X account at present.
The raid pertains to an investigation launched into the social media website in January 2025 when authorities started wanting into X’s content material algorithm. The probe was later expanded to incorporate Grok after reviews highlighted the chatbot for its alleged function in disseminating Holocaust denials and sexual deepfakes.
On the time, X’s World Authorities Affairs account revealed a prolonged assertion calling the investigation “politically motivated” and “prison”.
X stated on the time that it categorically denied the allegations, including that the investigation threatened platform customers’ rights to privateness and free speech. Each X and Grok are owned by xAI, which has simply merged with Musk’s area enterprise SpaceX in a $1.25trn deal.
Immediately’s (3 February) search was undertaken alongside the French police’s nationwide cyber unit and Europol.
In a press release, prosecutors added that Musk and Yaccarino have been referred to as in for voluntary questioning on 20 April “of their capability as de facto and de jure managers of the X platform on the time of the occasions”. Yaccarino stop as X’s CEO in July 2025 after serving within the function for 2 years.
France’s investigation into X is wanting on the social platform’s alleged complicity round spreading youngster sexual abuse materials and sexually specific deepfakes.
The EU launched its personal Digital Providers Act probe into X late final month to evaluate whether or not the social media website correctly assessed and mitigated dangers stemming from its in-platform AI chatbot Grok.
Alongside this, the EU is constant with a separate years-long investigation into X to evaluate if the platform mitigated dangers stemming from its recommender programs, together with the impression of the lately introduced swap to a Grok-based recommender system.
In the meantime, UK media regulator Ofcom has additionally launched an investigation into X over considerations that Grok might have produced youngster sexual abuse materials.
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