The French offices of Elon Musk’s X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor’s cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the creation of child pornography. The prosecutor’s office said the probe began in January 2025 when it started looking into content recommended by the social media platform’s algorithm, before being widened to include its controversial AI chatbot, Grok. In a statement, it added that both Musk and former X chief executive officer Linda Yaccarino had been summoned to appear at hearings in April. X has yet to comment but has previously characterised the investigation as an attack on free speech. X previously described the widening of the probe, in July 2025, 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.

🤦‍♀️