X's Paris Hq Raided By French Prosecutors

Paris prosecutors announced that a hunt was underway astatine offices beryllium to Elon Musk’s X level arsenic portion of an ongoing investigation first launched successful January 2025. The ambush is being conducted by Paris and nationalist cybercrime units, pinch support from Interpol, according to station from Paris prosecutors connected X. Officials from X person yet to remark connected nan matter.

At nan aforesaid time, Paris prosecutors issued summonses to Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino for “voluntary interviews” connected April 20, 2026 successful Paris. The prosecutors besides announced they would nary longer usage X and would only pass connected LinkedIn and Instagram going forward.

The searches are portion of an investigation that has been ongoing for astir a twelvemonth complete nan functioning of X’s algorithms that are “likely to person distorted nan cognition of an automated information processing system,” investigators said astatine nan time. Those changes reportedly gave greater prominence to definite governmental contented (especially from Musk) without personification knowledge — thing that could beryllium a crime nether French laws.

An investigation was officially launched successful July, pinch Paris prosecutors adding an further charge: “Fraudulent extraction of information from an automated information processing strategy by an organized group.” More recently, it besides includes “complicity successful nan possession of images of minors representing a pedo-pornographic character,” owed to images created by Grok betwixt December 25, 2025 and January 1, 2026.

At nan time, X said successful a connection that nan probe “egregiously undermines X’s basal correct to owed process and threatens our users' authorities to privateness and free speech. [French officials have] accused X of manipulating its algorithm for 'foreign interference' purposes, an allegation which is wholly false,” a spokesperson said successful July.