Police Search X Premises in Paris as Inquiry Widens

French police searched X's Paris offices as prosecutors summoned the platform's owner, Elon Musk, in a yearlong probe by the Paris prosecutor’s cybercrime division. The office said it is investigating seven accusations including complicity in distributing images of a child of a pornographic nature, producing content that denies crimes against humanity, and fraudulent extraction of data, according to a statement from the city’s chief prosecutor, Laure Beccuau.

Prosecutors said the inquiry began over concerns about X’s algorithm and expanded after allegations that Grok, X’s A.I. chatbot, spread Holocaust denial claims and sexual deepfakes. The office also said X stopped using a tool meant to restrict child sexual abuse imagery, that Grok could create sexualized versions of images without subjects’ consent, and that investigators have been refused information about subscribers suspected of crimes.

Several people associated with X, including Mr.

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