Paris, France — French authorities have requested Elon Musk to look to reply questions as a part of a probe into his social media platform X, the Paris prosecutor’s workplace mentioned Monday, as authorities searched X’s workplace within the French capital.
“Summons for voluntary interviews on April 20, 2026, in Paris have been despatched to Mr. Elon Musk and Ms. Linda Yaccarino, of their capability as de facto and de jure managers of the X platform on the time of the occasions,” the Paris prosecutor’s workplace mentioned in a press release.
French cybercrime authorities had been finishing up a search, in the meantime, at X’s places of work in Paris, the prosecutor’s workplace mentioned.
The summonses for Musk and Yaccarino and the search on the X workplace had been associated to an investigation launched in January 2025 over complaints about how X’s algorithm recommends content material to customers and gathers information, the prosecutor’s workplace mentioned. Officers have beforehand raised concern that the way in which X works may quantity to political interference.
The investigation is to make sure that X is in compliance with French legal guidelines, and the prosecutor added that it was broadened final yr after reviews that X was permitting customers to share nonconsensual, AI-generated sexually express imagery, and holocaust denial content material.
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X and Musk have dismissed the French investigation, and comparable probes by European Union and British authorities, as baseless, politically motivated assaults on free speech.
Yaccarino resigned as CEO of X in July final yr after two years on the helm of the corporate.
The investigation is being led by the cybercrime unit of the prosecutor’s workplace, together with French police and the joint European policing company Europol.
A CBS Information investigation discovered late final month that the Grok AI instrument on Musk’s X platform nonetheless allowed customers within the U.S., U.Okay. and EU to digitally undress folks with out their consent, regardless of public pledges from the corporate to cease the operate.
The Grok chatbot, each by way of its standalone app and for premium X account holders utilizing the platform, allowed folks to make use of synthetic intelligence to edit photos of actual folks and present them in revealing clothes akin to bikinis.
A request for touch upon the findings of CBS Information’ investigation was met with an obvious auto-reply from Musk’s firm xAI, saying solely: “Legacy media lies.”
Scrutiny of the Grok characteristic has mounted quickly in latest months, with the British authorities warning X may face a U.Okay.-wide ban if it fails to dam the “bikini-fy” instrument, and EU regulators asserting their very own investigation into the Grok AI modifying operate on in late January.
CBS Information discovered Grok was nonetheless enabling customers to digitally undress folks in pictures weeks after X mentioned, earlier in January, that it had, “applied technological measures to forestall the [@]Grok account on X globally from permitting the modifying of photos of actual folks in revealing clothes akin to bikinis. This restriction applies to all customers, together with paid subscribers.”
