US EditionParis prosecutors raid X offices as part of investigation into child abuse images and deepfakes
- French prosecutors raided X offices as part of an investigation into child abuse images and deepfakes.
- The probe will also investigate alleged complicity in disseminating Holocaust denials and sexual deepfakes.
- Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino are summoned to a hearing on April 20 related to the investigation.
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The Paris Public Prosecutor ' s Office reported on searches at the French social media office X (formerly Twitter). The searches are being carried out by officers of the cybercrime unit together with Europol as part of an investigation launched in January 2025.
Paris cops raid offices of Elon Musk's X in child porn investigation
The offices of X, formerly known as Twitter, were raided this morning by police in Paris. French authorities haven't announced what they're looking for, but the officers are from a cyber-crime unit investigating "unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography," so it presumably concerns Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok generating CSAM and deepfake pornography of real people for users of the platform. — Read the rest Th…
The Paris Public Prosecutor's Office announced in a statement that a search was carried out on the premises of the social network X France, Tuesday, February 3. French justice called on 20 April in "free hearings", the owner of the Elon Musk platform.
The investigation began after two reports of political interference, algorithm changes, and illegal data collection.
The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit as part of an investigation into suspected criminal offences including illegal data mining and complicity in the possession of child pornography. The prosecutor's office said the investigation began in January 2025 when it began examining content recommended by the social media platform's algorithm, before expanding to include its controversial artific…
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