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French Police Raid X’s Paris Office, Prosecutor Summons Musk

The search followed an investigation into Grok’s generation of explicit ‘deep fakes,’ which X has taken action to stop, and the platform’s algorithm.
French Police Raid X’s Paris Office, Prosecutor Summons Musk
(Left) SpaceX, Twitter and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Paris, on June 16, 2023. (Right) The X logo, pictured on a screen in Paris on July 24, 2023. Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty Images
Rachel Roberts
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French police specializing in cybercrime, assisted by the European Union’s crime-fighting agency Europol, have raided the offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday.

The prosecutor’s announcement said the search relates to an investigation begun in January 2025 into the content promoted by the X algorithm, which widened in July 2025 to include its AI chatbot, Grok.
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