Overview
- Prosecutors searched X’s Paris offices on Feb. 3 with support from Europol and France’s national cyber unit.
- The investigation, opened in January 2025, now examines suspected complicity in possessing and distributing child‑pornographic images, sexually explicit deepfakes, Holocaust denial and fraudulent data extraction.
- Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino were summoned for voluntary interviews on April 20 in Paris, with X employees to be heard as witnesses later that week.
- The Paris prosecutor’s office announced it is leaving X for public communications and will use LinkedIn and Instagram instead.
- EU and U.K. regulators are running parallel inquiries, including a formal DSA case and new ICO and ongoing Ofcom investigations, while X denies wrongdoing and calls the actions politically motivated.