Overview
- The Paris cybercrime unit searched X’s French offices with Europol support, and the prosecutor’s office said it will stop posting on X as the case proceeds.
- Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino were called for voluntary interviews on April 20, with X employees to testify as witnesses the same week.
- Opened in January 2025 on suspected algorithm manipulation and possible foreign interference, the inquiry now covers alleged child sexual imagery, sexual deepfakes, Holocaust denial and data-system offenses.
- EU regulators have launched a Digital Services Act investigation into Grok’s generation of sexualized deepfakes, and an NGO report found over half of 20,000 Grok images analyzed were highly sexualized, including depictions appearing to be minors.
- X has announced planned “manipulated media” labels for edited or synthetic images, and Musk has denied knowledge of nude images of minors being generated, asserting the system blocks illegal content.