X’s Paris HQ raided by French prosecutors

Paris prosecutors announced {that a} search was underway at places of work belong to Elon Musk’s X platform as a part of an ongoing investigation first launched in January 2025. The raid is being performed by Paris and nationwide cybercrime models, with help from Interpol, in line with submit from Paris prosecutors on X. Officers from X have but to touch upon the matter.

On the identical time, Paris prosecutors issued summonses to Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino for “voluntary interviews” on April 20, 2026 in Paris. The prosecutors additionally introduced they’d now not use X and would solely talk on LinkedIn and Instagram going ahead.

The searches are a part of an investigation that has been ongoing for almost a yr over the functioning of X’s algorithms which are “more likely to have distorted the operation of an automatic knowledge processing system,” investigators said at the time. These adjustments reportedly gave larger prominence to sure political content material (particularly from Musk) with out person data — one thing that could possibly be against the law below French legal guidelines.

An investigation was officially launched in July, with Paris prosecutors including a further cost: “Fraudulent extraction of knowledge from an automatic knowledge processing system by an organized group.” Extra not too long ago, it additionally consists of “complicity within the possession of pictures of minors representing a pedo-pornographic character,” as a consequence of pictures created by Grok between December 25, 2025 and January 1, 2026.

In July, X mentioned in a press release that the probe “egregiously undermines X’s elementary proper to due course of and threatens our customers’ rights to privateness and free speech. [French officials have] accused X of manipulating its algorithm for ‘overseas interference’ functions, an allegation which is totally false.”