Tracking the Paris Prosecutor's Investigation into Elon Musk's X
On February 3, 2026, French officials from the Paris prosecutor’s office raided X’s offices in Paris and summoned Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino for questioning. This action followed a year-long investigation that began in January 2025 over whether X’s algorithm was manipulated to enable “foreign interference” and was recently expanded to include allegations related to Grok, X’s AI chatbot, which has reportedly been used to propagate nonconsensual intimate imagery and child sexual abuse material.
The timeline below presents events in reverse chronological order, starting with the February 3, 2026, raid and working backward to the initial complaints in January 2025. This post will be updated as additional information becomes available.
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