On Tuesday morning, authorities raided the Paris offices of Elon Musk’s X as part of an investigation initiated last year by the cybercrime division of the Paris public prosecutor’s office.
An announcement was issued by French law enforcement authorities in July of last year. that they would search whether X had been engaged in “altering the functioning of an automated data processing system” and “fraudulent extraction of data from an automated data processing system as part of an organized crime group.”
French prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in an official communiquéMusk and Linda Yaccarino have been summoned by French authorities for a court appearance on April 20 as part of the investigation, while employees of platform X are also summoned for the following week in April to be heard as witnesses.
The Paris prosecutor has announced that the investigation aims to expose Grok’s operations on platform X, which allegedly contributed to the spread of Holocaust denial material and sexually explicit deepfake content. The latest statement also confirms that the inquiry into Musk’s platform has been broadened to examine potential involvement in the possession of child sexual abuse material, participation in its distribution, promotion, or availability through organized networks, violations of image rights, and the denial of crimes against humanity, among other grave offenses.
The probe began after January reports accused X of algorithm changes and management interference under Elon Musk, leading to an increase in hateful, extremist content and efforts to influence democratic debate in France
As reported by Le Monde, a separate complaint published by Le Canard enchaîné came from a cybersecurity director who criticized the surge of “disturbing political content” on X, describing it as hateful, racist, anti-LGBTQ+, and homophobic since Musk assumed control of the platform.
