Overview
- France’s cybercrime unit searched X’s offices with support from Europol, with prosecutors describing a constructive approach intended to ensure compliance with French law.
- Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino were summoned for voluntary interviews on April 20, and X employees were called to give witness testimony the same week.
- Prosecutors are examining suspected complicity in possession and distribution of child sexual abuse images, sexually explicit deepfakes that violate image rights, Holocaust denial, and manipulation or fraudulent extraction from automated systems.
- The probe began in January 2025 after lawmaker Éric Bothorel’s complaint about algorithmic manipulation and later expanded following Grok outputs that included Holocaust‑denial posts and large volumes of sexualized images, with one study estimating millions in days.
- Parallel scrutiny continues as the European Commission investigates Grok under the Digital Services Act and previously fined X €120 million, while U.K. regulators Ofcom and the ICO pursue their own inquiries.