Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk’s X

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This FT report goes back to July of last year —

X slams French criminal probe over alleged algorithm ‘manipulation’

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Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk’s X

LIV McMAHON for THE BBC

Police specialising in combating cyber-crime, assisted by Europol, have raided the offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, in France.

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The Paris prosecutor said it related to an investigation into the content recommended by X’s algorithm, which had subsequently been widened to include its controversial AI chatbot, Grok.

The prosecutor’s office added both Musk and former X chief executive officer Linda Yaccarino had been summoned to appear at hearings in April as part of its probe.

X has yet to respond. BBC News has approached the company for comment.

It has previously described the investigation as an attack on free speech.

The investigation into X began in January 2025 before being expanded in July that year after reports of sexually explicit deepfakes and holocaust denial content circulating on the platform.

X previously described the widening of the probe in a post at the time as “politically-motivated” and denied allegations it had manipulated its algorithm.

Prosecutors say they are now investigating whether X has broken the law across multiple areas.

Among potential crimes it said it would investigate were complicity in possession or organised distribution of images of children of a pornographic nature, infringement of people’s image rights with sexual deepfakes, and fraudulent data extraction by an organised group.

The prosecutor’s office also said it was leaving X and would communicate on LinkedIn and Instagram from now on.

Musk’s social media platform has recently been subject to intense scrutiny over sexualised images generated and edited on the site using its AI tool Grok.

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