The offices of X in France were searched by French prosecutors as they widened a probe into Grok sexual « deepfakes » and Holocaust denial content.
Feb. 3 French cybercrime authorities searched the offices of Elon Musk’s X in Paris on Tuesday as they investigate the company on suspicion of illegal harvesting of data and complicity in the possession or distribution of child pornography.
The Paris Prosecutor’s Office said it raided the premises as part of its year-long investigation into the platform and its AI chatbot, Grok, and had ordered Musk and former chief executive Linda Yaccarino to testify at hearings in April.
Local employees will also be called in for questioning, according to the prosecutors office which confirmed it was closing its account on the platform.
Possible breaches of people’s image rights by using Grok to create non-consensual sexualized images of women and children and allegations of fraudulent data extraction by an organized group are also being looked at.
The investigation, which focused on misuse of algorithms when it launched in January 2025, was widening its scope to include the so-called « sexual deepfakes » and the spreading of « Holocaust denial content », said Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau.
