X office in Paris searched as prosecutor summons Musk for questioning

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Paris, France — French authorities person asked Elon Musk to look to reply questions arsenic portion of a probe into his societal media level X, the Paris prosecutor's bureau said Monday, arsenic authorities searched X's bureau successful the French capital.

"Summons for voluntary interviews connected April 20, 2026, successful Paris person been sent to Mr. Elon Musk and Ms. Linda Yaccarino, successful their capableness arsenic de facto and de jure managers of the X level astatine the clip of the events," the Paris prosecutor's bureau said successful a statement.

French cybercrime authorities were carrying retired a search, meanwhile, astatine X's offices successful Paris, the prosecutor's bureau said.

The summonses for Musk and Yaccarino and the hunt astatine the X bureau were related to an probe launched successful January 2025 implicit complaints astir however X's algorithm recommends contented to users and gathers data, the prosecutor's bureau said. Officials person antecedently raised interest that the mode X works could magnitude to governmental interference.

The probe is to guarantee that X is successful compliance with French laws, and the authoritative added that it was broadened past twelvemonth aft reports that X was allowing users to stock nonconsensual, AI-generated sexually explicit imagery, and holocaust denial content.

X and Musk person dismissed the French investigation, and akin probes by European Union and British authorities, arsenic baseless, politically motivated attacks connected escaped speech.

Yaccarino resigned arsenic CEO of X successful July past twelvemonth aft 2 years astatine the helm of the company.

The probe is being led by the cybercrime portion of the prosecutor's office, successful conjunction with French constabulary and the associated European policing bureau Europol.

A CBS News probe found precocious past month that the Grok AI tool connected Musk's X level inactive allowed users successful the U.S., U.K. and EU to digitally undress radical without their consent, contempt nationalist pledges from the institution to halt the function.

The Grok chatbot, some via its standalone app and for premium X relationship holders utilizing the platform, allowed radical to usage artificial quality to edit images of existent radical and amusement them successful revealing covering specified arsenic bikinis.

A petition for remark connected the findings of CBS News' probe was met with an evident auto-reply from Musk's institution xAI, saying only: "Legacy media lies."

Scrutiny of the Grok diagnostic has mounted rapidly successful caller months, with the British authorities warning X could look a U.K.-wide ban if it fails to artifact the "bikini-fy" tool, and EU regulators announcing their ain probe into the Grok AI editing relation connected successful precocious January.

CBS News recovered Grok inactive was inactive enabling users to digitally undress radical successful photos weeks aft X said, earlier successful January that it had, "implemented technological measures to forestall the [@]Grok relationship connected X globally from allowing the editing of images of existent radical successful revealing covering specified arsenic bikinis. This regularisation applies to each users, including paid subscribers."

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