Prosecutors have raided the French headquarters of Elon Musk's social media platform X and summoned the tech billionaire and the company's former chief executive for questioning as part of an investigation into alleged cybercrime. A search is under way by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor's office, the national police cyber unit and Europol, the Paris prosecutors' office said in a post on X on Tuesday, adding that it would no longer be publishing on the network.
The French offices of Elon Musk's X are being raided by local police, according to the Paris prosecutor's office. The search is being carried out by a cybercrime unit in relation to an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris Prosecutor's office said in an X post on Tuesday. X has faced investigations and backlash in Europe over sexual images generated by its AI chatbot Grok.