The move followed a yearlong investigation into X and escalated a wider standoff between European officials and American tech companies over the regulation of social media.

French officials search X's office in Paris and ask Elon Musk to answer questions about the platform amid a probe into its algorithms and AI functions.

After Elon Musk called the raid on X’s Paris office as a ‘political attack’, France said that investigating child sexual abuse material was not controversial. France is investigating X’s chatbot Grok for generating sexually explicit deepfakes and Musk has ramped up his anti-EU rhetoric.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has reportedly ordered prosecutors to investigate social media companies X (formerly Twitter), Meta and TikTok ov.

Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino face mounting legal scrutiny in France as authorities reportedly escalate a high-profile cybercrime investigation into the platform. Prosecutors summoned the tech executives following a raid on X’s Paris offices earlier this week,

French prosecutors have raided the offices of social media platform X as part of a preliminary investigation into allegations that include spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes.

Paris prosecutors have raided Elon Musk's X offices in France as part of an investigation into child abuse images and deepfakes. The inquiry began in January 2022, focusing on alleged crimes such as the distribution of child pornography and Holocaust denial.