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All Rights Reserved. World News X offices raided in France as prosecutors investigate child abuse images and deepfakes X offices raided in France as prosecutors investigate child abuse images and deepfakes 1 of 2 | French prosecutors raided the offices of social media platform X as part of a preliminary investigation into allegations including spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes. They have also summoned billionaire owner Elon Musk for questioning. Read More The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone, Oct. 16, 2023, in Sydney. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File) 2 of 2 | The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone, Oct. 16, 2023, in Sydney. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File) Read More X offices raided in France as prosecutors investigate child abuse images and deepfakes Read More 1 of 2 French prosecutors raided the offices of social media platform X as part of a preliminary investigation into allegations including spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes. They have also summoned billionaire owner Elon Musk for questioning. Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share * Facebook * Copy Link copied * Print * Email * X * LinkedIn * Bluesky * Flipboard * Pinterest * Reddit Read More The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone, Oct. 16, 2023, in Sydney. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File) 2 of 2 | The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone, Oct. 16, 2023, in Sydney. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File) Read More 2 of 2 The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone, Oct. 16, 2023, in Sydney. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share * Facebook * Copy Link copied * Print * Email * X * LinkedIn * Bluesky * Flipboard * Pinterest * Reddit Read More [] By SYLVIE CORBET Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] Leer en espanol Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share * Facebook * Copy Link copied * Print * Email * X * LinkedIn * Bluesky * Flipboard * Pinterest * Reddit PARIS (AP) -- French prosecutors raided the offices of social media platform X on Tuesday as part of a preliminary investigation into allegations that include spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes. They have also summoned billionaire owner Elon Musk for questioning. X and Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI also face intensifying scrutiny from Britain's data privacy regulator, which opened formal investigations into how they handled personal data when they developed and deployed Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok. Grok, which was built by xAI and is available through X, sparked global outrage last month after it pumped out a torrent of sexualized nonconsensual deepfake images in response to requests from X users. The French investigation was opened in January last year by the prosecutors' cybercrime unit, the Paris prosecutors' office said in a statement. It's looking into alleged "complicity" in possessing and spreading pornographic images of minors, sexually explicit deepfakes, denial of crimes against humanity and manipulation of an automated data processing system as part of an organized group, among other charges. Prosecutors asked Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino to attend "voluntary interviews" on April 20. Employees of X have also been summoned that same week to be heard as witnesses, the statement said. Yaccarino was CEO from May 2023 until July 2025. Related Stories Elon Musk attends a memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File) Elon Musk joins his rocket and AI businesses into a single company 3 MIN READ In this photo provided by Ukraine's 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade press service, a serviceman poses for a photographer in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (Iryna Rybakova/Ukraine's 93rd Mechanized Brigade via AP) US-brokered talks on Russia's war on Ukraine will resume in Abu Dhabi 2 MIN READ Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, July 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File) Indonesia lets Elon Musk's Grok back online under tight supervision 1 MIN READ In a post on its own service denying the allegations, X railed against the raid on its Paris office as "an abusive act of law enforcement theater designed to achieve illegitimate political objectives rather than advance legitimate law enforcement goals rooted in the fair and impartial administration of justice." In a message posted on X, the Paris prosecutors' office announced the ongoing searches at the company's offices in France and said it was leaving the platform while calling on followers to join it on other social media. "At this stage, the conduct of the investigation is based on a constructive approach, with the aim of ultimately ensuring that the X platform complies with French law, as it operates on the national territory," the prosecutors' statement said. European Union police agency Europol "is supporting the French authorities in this," Europol spokesperson Jan Op Gen Oorth told the AP, without elaborating. French authorities opened their investigation after reports from a French lawmaker alleging that biased algorithms on X likely distorted the functioning of an automated data processing system. It expanded after Grok generated posts that allegedly denied the Holocaust, a crime in France, and spread sexually explicit deepfakes, the statement said. Grok wrote in a widely shared post in French that gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp were designed for "disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus" rather than for mass murder -- language long associated with Holocaust denial. In later posts on X, the chatbot reversed itself and acknowledged that its earlier reply was wrong, saying it had been deleted and pointed to historical evidence that Zyklon B was used to kill more than 1 million people in Auschwitz gas chambers. The chatbot also appeared to praise Adolf Hitler last year, in comments that X took down after complaints. In Britain, the Information Commissioner's Office said it's looking into whether X and xAI followed the law when processing personal data and whether Grok had any measures in place to prevent its use to generate "harmful manipulated images." "The reports about Grok raise deeply troubling questions about how people's personal data has been used to generate intimate or sexualised images without their knowledge or consent, and whether the necessary safeguards were put in place to prevent this," said William Malcolm, an executive director at the watchdog. He didn't specify what the penalty would be if the probe found the companies didn't comply with data protection laws. A separate investigation into Grok launched last month by the U.K. media regulator, Ofcom, is ongoing. Ofcom said Tuesday it's still gathering evidence and warned the probe could take months. X has also been under pressure from the EU. The 27-nation bloc's executive arm opened an investigation last month after Grok spewed nonconsensual sexualized deepfake images on the platform. Brussels has already hit X with a 120-million euro (then-$140 million) fine for shortcomings under the bloc's sweeping digital regulations, including blue checkmarks that broke the rules on "deceptive design practices" that risked exposing users to scams and manipulation. On Monday, Musk 's space exploration and rocket business, SpaceX, announced that it acquired xAI in a deal that will also combine Grok, X and his satellite communication company Starlink. ___ Associated Press writers Nicolas Vaux-Montagny in Lyon, France, Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands, Sylvia Hui and Kelvin Chan in London contributed to this report. SYLVIE CORBET SYLVIE CORBET Corbet is an Associated Press reporter based in Paris. 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