Overview
- Musk, who was summoned for a voluntary judicial interview Monday in Paris, did not attend, and prosecutors said the investigation goes on.
- The probe focuses on suspected complicity in spreading child sexual images and on AI tools that generated sexual deepfakes and negationist content on X.
- French cyber investigators searched X’s Paris offices in early February with Europol present, and employees are being heard as witnesses this week.
- Reports in U.S. media described a Justice Department letter refusing assistance on First Amendment grounds, which Paris prosecutors say they have not received.
- The case remains at the investigative stage with no criminal charges, and prosecutors frame it as a push to bring the platform into compliance with French law.