Overview
- Elon Musk posted a homophobic insult about French magistrates on Friday in response to coverage of the case, writing the message in French on his own platform.
- The Paris prosecutor said Thursday that a judge of instruction took charge of a criminal inquiry, with France’s national cyber unit leading work on possible complicity in the spread of child sexual images on X.
- Investigators are also examining alleged use of X’s Grok AI to generate sexual deepfakes that depict real people without their consent.
- The probe targets Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino as responsible managers under French law, and Musk did not answer a voluntary summons for an interview days before the judge was appointed.
- X has denied any wrongdoing and called a February search of its Paris office abusive and political, in a dispute that could become a test for Europe’s push to hold platforms to account for illegal and AI‑generated sexual content.