{"id":209463,"date":"2026-02-03T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/musks-social-media-platform-x-raided-by-paris-prosecutor\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T07:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:00:15","slug":"musks-social-media-platform-x-raided-by-paris-prosecutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/musks-social-media-platform-x-raided-by-paris-prosecutor\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s social media platform X raided by Paris prosecutor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/03\/business\/x-paris-prosecutor-raid-intl\">Musk\u2019s social media platform X raided by Paris prosecutor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/03\/business\/x-paris-prosecutor-raid-intl\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/03\/business\/x-paris-prosecutor-raid-intl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-03 04:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <span class=\"source__location vossi-source__location\" data-editable=\"location\">Paris<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml6f9z9f002y26owbtcb9wci@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A search was being carried out at the French offices of Elon Musk\u2019s social media platform X as part of an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris prosecutor\u2019s office said Tuesday.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml6fdus2000d3b6pn6v8tw4o@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The prosecutor\u2019s cybercrime unit is conducting the raid, it said in a statement, with Europol also involved.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml6g5vw80005396pj00v5pps@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Both X chairman Musk and former X chief executive Linda Yaccarino have been summoned to appear at hearings in April, while X employees will be questioned as witnesses, according to the Paris prosecutor.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml6gtuyq000u396pvg49kjce@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            CNN has reached out to X for comment<strong>.<\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml6g8o0t000a396p2et909eg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said the French<strong> <\/strong>investigation, which initially focused on suspected abuse of algorithms, had been broadened to include \u201cGrok\u2019s sexualized deepfakes.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml6g8hwx0008396pjkycp7ib@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Last week the European Commission launched a probe into X\u2019s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, following criticism of its ability to generate sexually explicit pictures. Scrutiny of that function came to a head late<strong> <\/strong>last year, when it emerged that the chatbot had produced a flood of digitally undressed images \u2013 including of women and children \u2013 at the behest of users.<strong> <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml6grqvj000n396p20x3u18y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The social media behemoth has since stopped all Grok users from creating images of people in revealing clothing.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml6f9z9f002z26ow9dkt11k9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            This is a developing story and will be updated.\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/03\/business\/x-paris-prosecutor-raid-intl\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musk\u2019s social media platform X raided by Paris prosecutor https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/03\/business\/x-paris-prosecutor-raid-intl Publish Date: 2026-02-03 04:59:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap26022568385547.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-209463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209465,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209463\/revisions\/209465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}