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French police raided X 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 The cybercrime unit of the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Officewho then called 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 after a complaint from a lawmaker alleging this biased algorithms on the platform are likely to have disrupted the operation of an automated data processing system.
Authorities are now investigating suspected algorithm abuse and fraudulent data extraction by X or the platform’s executives, prosecutors said.
Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino were subpoenaed. (Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox Media/Getty Images)
The investigation has also been extended to Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Musk’s company xAI and integrated into the platform, Reuters said.
The British privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office, also said this on Tuesday a statement it had launched a formal investigation into Grok over its processing of personal data, reporting that the chatbot had been used to generate non-consensual sexual images, including of children.
X went on to criticize the French authorities‘ actions, accusing prosecutors of circumventing international legal mechanisms.
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The research has also been extended to Grok, X’s AI chatbot. (Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The company said in a statement about X that the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office “clearly attempted to put pressure on X’s senior management in the United States by targeting our French entity and employees, who are not the subject of this investigation.”
X added that Prosecutors had ignored established procedures to obtain evidence “in accordance 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.”
Musk called the raid a “political attack.” (Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo/Reuters / Reuters Photos)
In a separate statement Europol said it supported the French investigation with the help of the cybercrime unit of the French gendarmerie.
“The investigation concerns a range of suspected criminal offenses related to the operation and use of the platform, including the distribution of illegal content and other forms of online criminal activity. Europol is ready to continue to support the French authorities as the investigation progresses,” the report said.
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The Paris prosecutor’s office also said it would stop communicating about X, Reuters reported.
