Office X in France searched as Paris prosecutor summons Elon Musk for questioning

Paris, France — The French authorities have requested Elon Musk to appear to answer questions as part of an investigation into his social media platform X, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Monday, as authorities searched X’s office in the French capital.

“Subpoenas for voluntary interviews on April 20, 2026 in Paris have been sent to Mr. Elon Musk and Ms. Linda Yaccarino, in their capacity as de facto and de jure administrators of platform X at the time of the events,” the Paris prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

Meanwhile, French cybercrime authorities were carrying out a search of X’s offices in Paris, prosecutors said.

The subpoenas for Musk and Yaccarino and the search of X’s office were related to an investigation launched in January 2025 into complaints about how X’s algorithm recommends content to users and collects data, prosecutors said. Officials have previously expressed concern that the way X works could amount to political interference.

The investigation aims to ensure that X complies with French laws, and the prosecutor added that it was expanded last year after reports that

X and Musk have dismissed the French investigation and similar investigations by British and European Union authorities as baseless and politically motivated attacks on freedom of expression.

Yaccarino resigned as CEO of X in July of last year after two years at the helm of the company.

The investigation is being led by the prosecutor’s cybercrime unit, in collaboration with French police and the European police agency Europol.

A News themezone investigation found late last month that he Great is a tom on Musk’s X platform still allowed US, UK, and EU users to digitally strip people without their consent, despite the company’s public promises to stop the feature.

Chatbot Grok, both through its standalone app and for premium X account holders using the platform, allowed people to use artificial intelligence to edit images of real people and show them in revealing clothing such as bikinis.

A request for comment on the News themezone investigation’s findings was met with an apparent automated response from Musk’s xAI company, which said only: “The traditional media lies.”

Scrutiny of the Grok role has increased rapidly in recent months, with the British government warning X could face a UK-wide ban if it fails to block the “bikini-fy” tool, and EU regulators announced their own investigation into Grok AI’s editing feature in late January.

News themezone discovered that Grok was still allowing users to digitally strip people in photographs weeks after X said in early January that it had “implemented technological measures to prevent [@]Grok counts on X worldwide allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis. This restriction applies to all users, including paid subscribers.”