French Police Raid Elon Musk's Social Media Platform Xin Over Alleged Extremist Content

Frenchpolice, alongside Europol, searched the office ofElon Musk'ssocial mediaplatform Xin the French capital on Monday, the Paris prosecutor's office said. The platform, formerly known as Twitter, is being investigated for a litany of alleged offenses, including boosting engagement for far-right extremist content and for allowing the company's AI chatbot tocreate sexualized deepfake images of women and children. Prosecutors have also filed requests for "voluntary interviews" of Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino. Paris prosecutors' office posted on the X platform itself to confirm the ongoing raids before saying it was leaving and telling its followers to join it on other platforms. "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' office said. The Paris prosecutors' office has listed the allegations that it is looking into as part of its investigation into Musk's social media platform: The first three possible crimes refer to the Grok chatbot created by xAI and which functions on the X platform. A "spicy mode" that was released last year resulted in tens of thousands of images being produced by the bot that included pictures of real people in sexualized poses or revealing clothing. Grok also produced images depicting children in a similar way. More to come...