French police and Europol recently conducted a search at the local office of X, as confirmed by the Paris prosecutor’s office. This search is part of an ongoing investigation that began in 2025, focusing on allegations of data extraction fraud by an organized group.
The investigation has now expanded to include additional suspected crimes such as complicity in the possession and distribution of child sexual exploitation material, privacy violations, and Holocaust denial. This expansion follows criticisms faced by X and its CEO, Elon Musk, regarding the misuse of its AI system, Grok AI, which has reportedly been used to generate nonconsensual and harmful imagery on the platform.
Elon Musk, the CEO of X, and former X chief executive Linda Yaccarino have been summoned for questioning in relation to these allegations. The Paris prosecutor’s office also issued summons to unnamed X employees for the same period, highlighting the gravity of the situation.
Requests for comments from X and eMed, where Yaccarino currently serves as the CEO, have not been responded to at this time. Maylis De Roeck, a spokesperson for the Paris prosecutor’s office, emphasized the objective of ensuring X’s compliance with French law, given its operations within the country.
Source: TechCrunch