Overview
- Paris’s cybercrime unit led a February 3 search of X’s French offices with the national gendarmerie cyber unit and Europol as part of an inquiry opened in January 2025.
- Elon Musk and former X chief Linda Yaccarino are summoned for non-custodial hearings on April 20, with employees called as witnesses from April 20–24.
- The probe covers alleged complicity in possession and organized distribution of child sexual images, contestation of crimes against humanity, administration of an illicit online platform, and manipulation of automated data-processing systems.
- Investigators are scrutinizing Grok after negationist outputs and sexual deepfakes, while EU and UK regulators pursue parallel actions including an EU DSA fine and a UK ICO inquiry into Grok-related content.
- X calls the action politically motivated and denies any offense, and AFP fact-checkers report that viral images purporting to show the raid were generated by AI.