Raid at X in Paris, summons for Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino
The Paris public prosecutor's office investigated X for over a year and repeatedly expanded the scope of its investigation. A search in Paris has now followed.
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The Paris public prosecutor's office had the premises of the microblogging service X in the French capital searched on Tuesday. Parquet de Paris announced this on the microblogging service itself and added that the raid was carried out by the Cybercrime Unit with Europol. It was conducted as part of investigations initiated a year ago concerning algorithms and the selection of displayed posts. In the same post on X, the prosecutor's office also announced that it would cease activities on the microblogging service. They should now be followed on LinkedIn and Instagram.
Summons for Musk and Yaccarino
France24 further reports that the prosecutor's office has also made it public that Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino have been summoned for hearings in April. However, these are voluntary; the two are not required to appear.
Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and subsequently renamed the microblogging service X. Yaccarino was CEO of the social network until the beginning of July 2025 and was therefore in a responsible position at the time of the investigations. Whether she will answer the questions is unclear, however. It is also doubtful whether Elon Musk will comply with the summons. The microblogging service X has not commented on the searches to the French news agency.
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According to the daily newspaper Le Figaro, the prosecutor's office has nevertheless assured that the investigations will not be limited to conditions at X that may long be outdated. The algorithm is constantly being revised, and the AI chatbot Grok is also having an increasing influence on what users are shown. These latest developments are to be considered, and the investigations are to be extended accordingly. Explicit reference was also made to the sexual deepfakes that Grok caused a worldwide sensation with after the turn of the year. The “denial of crimes against humanity” has also been included in the investigations.
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