Overview
- Paris cybercrime authorities searched X’s French offices and said employees will be heard as witnesses as part of a preliminary judicial investigation opened in 2025.
- Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino were invited to voluntary interviews on April 20, a step prosecutors say is intended to let executives state their position and compliance plans.
- The case now covers alleged complicity in possession and distribution of child sexual imagery, creation and dissemination of sexual deepfakes, Holocaust denial, and manipulation of automated systems.
- The European Commission is running a separate inquiry focused on Grok’s ability to generate sexually explicit images, including depictions of women and minors, under EU digital-services rules.
- Reporting has cited millions of sexualized images generated by Grok, including estimates of tens of thousands possibly involving minors, and separate reviews say recent restrictions have been uneven despite X announcing a new manipulated-media label.