French police raided X’s offices in Paris on Tuesday as part of an investigation into the company’s use of algorithms and its artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok.
The search was carried out by the Paris Cybercrime Prosecutor’s Officewho then summoned Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino to testify on April 20, according to to Reuters.
French prosecutors had opened the investigation in 2025 following a complaint filed by a lawmaker alleging that biased algorithms on the platform were likely to have disrupted the operation of an automated data processing system.
Authorities are currently investigating suspicions of algorithm abuse and fraudulent data extraction by X or the platform’s executives, prosecutors said.
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Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino were summoned. (Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox Media / Getty Images)
The investigation also expanded to include Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Musk’s company xAI and integrated into the platform, Reuters reported.
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Britain’s privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office, also said on Tuesday in a declaration it had launched a formal investigation against Grok for processing personal data and reported that the chatbot had been used to generate non-consensual sexual images, including of children.
X then criticized the French authorities’ actions, accusing prosecutors of circumventing international legal mechanisms.
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The investigation also expanded to include Grok, X’s AI chatbot. (Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The company said in a statement about that the Paris prosecutor’s office “was clearly trying to exert pressure on the senior management of X in the United States by targeting our entity and our French employees, who are not the subject of this investigation”.
X added that prosecutors ignored established procedures to obtain evidence “in compliance with international treaties” and the company’s right to defend itself.
Referring to the raid, Musk said in a post on X: “This is a political attack.”
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Musk called the raid a “political attack.” (Gonzalo Fuentes/File photo/Reuters / Reuters Photos)
In a separate statement, Europol said she supported the French investigation with the assistance of the cybercrime unit of the French gendarmerie.
“The investigation concerns a series of alleged criminal offenses related to the operation and use of the platform, including the dissemination of illegal content and other forms of criminal activity online. Europol is ready to continue to support the French authorities as the investigation progresses,” he said.
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The Paris prosecutor’s office also announced that it would stop communicating about X, Reuters reported.
FOX Business has contacted X for comment.
