French Police Raid Musk’s X Office In Growing Deepfakes, Sexual Content Investigation

French authorities raided the Paris offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X and ordered the billionaire to appear for questioning, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday.

The search was conducted by French cybercrime police with assistance from Europol, the EU’s law enforcement agency, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced. The action is part of a criminal investigation opened more than a year ago that has expanded to include allegations of algorithm abuse and the spread of illegal content, including sexual deepfakes, on the platform.

Prosecutors said Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino have been summoned to hearings scheduled for April 20.

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The probe initially stemmed from complaints by French lawmaker Éric Bothorel, who accused X of distorting its algorithms in ways that interfered with political discourse. Authorities later broadened the investigation to include X’s AI chatbot, Grok, following complaints about its outputs.

“Glad to see that my complaint from January 2025 is yielding results!” Bothorel wrote on X following the news of the raid. “In Europe, and particularly in France, the Rule of Law means that no one is above the law.”

Prosecutors said they are investigating possible complicity in the creation and distribution of child sexual abuse material, the defamation of individuals through sexually explicit deepfakes, and content denying “crimes against humanity,” including Holocaust denial, according to