The cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor's office ordered the raid of X's offices in France on Tuesday and summoned its owner, Elon Musk, and its former CEO Linda Yaccarino to testify "voluntarily" on April 20 in connection with the investigation opened in January 2025 against the social platform, which has recently been expanded.
Paris prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, confirmed that the initial investigation (for alleged manipulation of its algorithm to promote "foreign interference") has been extended to include the dissemination of "fake images with sexual content of Grok," X's artificial intelligence chatbot.
The raids on X's French offices were carried out in collaboration with Europol and a week after the European Commission initiated an investigation into Grok, due to the controversy caused by its ability to create sexually explicit images, mainly of women and children, at the request of users.
French authorities are investigating the company for the dissemination of "sexual deepfakes," as well as for messages denying the Holocaust. In the case of "deepfakes," X could be accused of "complicity in the dissemination, offer, or provision of child pornography," "fraudulent data extraction," and "attack on the representation of the person."
X has not yet responded to the latest accusations, although it countered the investigation opened last year by alleging that it was motivated by "political purposes." The first intervention by the prosecutor's office came in response to a complaint filed by deputy Eric Bothorel of the Macronist party "Renaissance," alleging "the alleged manipulation of X's algorithm to promote foreign interference."