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- The French offices of Elon Musk's X are being searched by local police.
- The Paris prosecutor's office said the raid was in relation to an investigation opened in January 2025.
- X has faced investigations and backlash in Europe over sexual images generated by its AI chatbot Grok.
The French offices of Elon Musk's X are being raided by local police, according to the Paris prosecutor's office.
The search is being carried out by a cybercrime unit in relation to an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris Prosecutor's office said in an X post on Tuesday.
The prosecutor's office said in February 2025 it had opened an investigation into X over allegations that Elon Musk had manipulated the platform's algorithm. It is not clear if this is the investigation the post refers to.
The prosecutor's office said the search was being assisted by Europol, the European Union's central crime agency.
xAI — which acquired X in March 2025, before itself being folded into Musk's rocket company SpaceX this week — didn't immediately respond to a request for comment
The raid is the latest setback facing X in Europe. The platform has faced huge backlash in recent months from politicians and regulators over the spread of sexual images generated by xAI's chatbot Grok on the platform.
Last month, the European Union said it had opened an investigation into the spread of illegal images, including possible child sexual abuse material, generated by Grok on X. The UK's media regulator announced a similar investigation earlier in January.
X said last month that it had implemented technological measures to stop Grok from editing images of real people into revealing clothing.
The EU also hit X with a $140 million fine in December 2025 over the platform's infamous blue checkmark system, with the bloc said exposed users to scams.
The Paris prosecutor's office also said it would leave X and instead communicate on LinkedIn and Instagram.
