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The French investigation into Elon Musk’s X illustrated a fundamental divide between European and American leaders about how to regulate social media — or whether to restrict it at all.
Robby Soave delivers his radar on the recent raid of offices of the social media platform X in France, and the concerns about X's AI chatbot Grok. #Grok #ElonMusk #RobbySoave
The French offices of Elon Musk’s X were raided Tuesday amid an investigation into the social platform, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. The prosecutor’s office said in a post on X that its cybercrime unit had executed a search warrant at the company’s offices as part of a probe launched last January. It also announced that it was leaving the platform. Musk’s spacecraft and satellite communications company SpaceX has acquired his AI company xAI, the tech billionaire said Monday. Read More: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5720244-elon-musks-x-offices-raided-in-paris/ https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5719377-musk-spacex-ai-merger/
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PULSE POINTSWHAT HAPPENED: French prosecutors raided the Paris office of Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) as part of an investigation into allegations including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography.WHO WAS INVOLVED: Elon Musk, former X CEO Linda Yaccarino, French prosecutors, the British Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), and British communications regulator […] The post France Raids X Offices; UK Launches New Probe. appeared first on The National Pulse .
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: French prosecutors raided the Paris office of Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) as part of an investigation into allegations including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography. WHO WAS INVOLVED: Elon Musk, former X CEO Linda Yaccarino, French prosecutors, the British Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), and British communications regulator Ofcom. WHEN & WHERE: The raid occurred in France, with investigations ongoing since January 25. British regulators also launched probes into Musk’s AI tool, Grok. KEY QUOTE: “The reports about Grok raise deeply troubling questions about how people’s personal data has been used to generate intimate or sexualised images without…Open
The investigation is to ensure that the X platform is in compliance with French laws
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'Attacking American companies'
The prosecutors raided the offices of X as part of a preliminary investigation into allegations including spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes. They also summoned owner Elon Musk for questioning.
French prosecutors raided X's Paris offices Tuesday and summoned Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino for voluntary questioning in a criminal probe tied to Grok's Holocaust denial and explicit deepfakes. The big picture: The move intensifies a global crackdown on Musk's companies for Grok's generation of explicit images of women and children and its use of antisemitic language . - Beyond France, European and British regulators have opened investigations. California's attorney general has demanded xAI halt "illegal" activity, and Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked Grok entirely. Driving the news: The French raid, conducted alongside EU law enforcement agency Europol, stems from an investigation launched in January 2025, the…
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.
PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutors’ office said a search was underway Tuesday at the French offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X as part of a preliminary investigation into a range of alleged offences, including spreading child pornography and deepfakes. The investigation was opened in January last year by the prosecutors’ cybercrime unit, [...]