Overview
- The Paris prosecutor’s cybercrime unit searched X’s French premises with support from Europol and announced it is quitting the platform for official communications.
- Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino were called for voluntary interviews on April 20, 2026, with X employees summoned as witnesses later that week.
- Listed offences under investigation include complicity in possessing and distributing child sexual abuse images, sexually explicit deepfakes, Holocaust denial, and unlawful data extraction by an organized group.
- EU and UK scrutiny has intensified, with a new U.K. ICO data probe and Ofcom’s ongoing inquiry, alongside the European Commission’s DSA investigation and a prior €120 million fine against X.
- X denies wrongdoing, labels the case politically motivated, and has imposed limits on Grok’s image tools that regulators and researchers say do not fully address the risks.