Overview
- France’s cybercrime unit, with the national cyber police and Europol, searched X’s offices as part of an investigation that began in January 2025.
- Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino were called for voluntary interviews in Paris on April 20, with X employees to be heard as witnesses later that week.
- Prosecutors listed suspected offenses including complicity in possession and distribution of child sexual‑abuse images, sexually explicit deepfakes, Holocaust denial, and manipulation or fraudulent extraction from automated data systems.
- The prosecutor’s office said the process is intended to ensure compliance with French law and announced it is leaving X to post updates on LinkedIn and Instagram.
- Parallel scrutiny continues in Europe and the U.K., with an active EU Digital Services Act probe into Grok and a new U.K. ICO investigation alongside Ofcom’s; X has denied wrongdoing and previously called the case politically motivated.