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French police and Europol searched the local office of X, the Paris prosecutor\u2019s office announced<\/a> on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n The raid is part of an ongoing investigation launched in 2025<\/a> on allegations of \u201cfraudulent extraction of data\u201d of an automated data processing system \u201cby an organized group.\u201d<\/p>\n French prosecutors\u2019 cybercrime unit said the investigation has now been expanded to cover other alleged crimes, including: complicity in possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material; privacy violations; and Holocaust denial. <\/p>\n The expansion of the investigation comes as X and its owner Elon Musk faces widespread criticism<\/a> for allowing its Grok AI to be used to generate non-consensual imagery, including child abuse imagery, of other people on its platform.<\/p>\n Musk, who bought X<\/a> (previously Twitter) in 2022, and former X chief executive Linda Yaccarino were summoned for questioning on April 20. Unnamed X staffers were also summoned for the same week, per the prosecutor\u2019s announcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n