French police and Europol searched the native workplace of X, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday.
The raid is a part of an ongoing investigation launched in 2025 on allegations of “fraudulent extraction of knowledge” of an automatic data-processing system “by an organized group.”
French prosecutors’ cybercrime unit mentioned the investigation has now been expanded to cowl different alleged crimes, together with complicity in possession and distribution of kid sexual abuse materials, privateness violations, and Holocaust denial.
The enlargement of the investigation comes as X and its proprietor Elon Musk face widespread criticism for permitting its Grok AI for use to generate nonconsensual imagery, together with little one abuse imagery, of different individuals on its platform.
Musk, who purchased X (beforehand Twitter) in 2022, and former X chief government Linda Yaccarino had been summoned for questioning on April 20. Unnamed X staffers had been additionally summoned for a similar week, per the prosecutor’s announcement.
When reached for remark, X spokesperson Rosemarie Esposito referred to a statement posted on X’s World Authorities Affairs account, through which the corporate mentioned “the allegations underlying in the present day’s raid are baseless and X categorically denies any wrongdoing.”
A spokesperson for eMed, the place Yaccarino is now the chief government, didn’t reply to TechCrunch’s request for remark.
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When reached for remark, Maylis De Roeck, a spokesperson for the Paris prosecutor’s workplace, confirmed the raid in an announcement: “The Public Prosecutor’s Workplace’s goal is finally to make sure platform X’s compliance with French regulation, provided that it operates throughout the nationwide territory.”
This story was up to date to incorporate X’s assertion.
