French police and Europol searched X’s local office, Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday.
Attack is part of ongoing investigation launched in 2025 about allegations of “false data extraction” from automated data processing systems “by an organized group.”
The French prosecutor’s cybercrime unit said the investigation has now been expanded to cover other alleged crimes, including: complicity in the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material; breach of privacy; and Holocaust denial.
The expansion of the investigation is X and its owner Elon Musk faced widespread criticism because it allows Grok AI to be used to generate non-consensual imagery, including child abuse imagery, of other people on the platform.
Musk, who? buy X (formerly Twitter) in 2022, and X’s former chief executive Linda Yaccarino was called in for an investigation on April 20. An unnamed employee of X was also subpoenaed the same week, according to the prosecutor’s announcement.
X and eMed spokesperson, where Yaccarino is now chief executivedid not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment.
When asked for comment, Maylis De Roeck, spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office, confirmed the attack in a statement. “The aim of the Public Prosecutor’s Office is to ensure that the X platform complies with French law, as it operates on national territory,” the statement read.
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