The cyber crime unit of the Paris prosecutors’ department have raided Elon Musk’s X offices in France. The billionaire chief of X is being investigated over an array of suspected serious offences ranging from illegal data collection and possession of child pornography among others.
The Europol — European Union’s central crime agency and French Gendarmerie nationale, a unit of France’s armed forces were part of this raid on these offices related to X and Musk.
As per media reports, Musk is being investigated over “crimes on humanity”. Additional allegations that Musk is being probed over include conspiring to illegally operate an online platform.
The investigation against the billionaire tech mogul kickstarted in January 2025. At the time, the French authorities had started checking if X was compliant with national cyber laws.
Grok AI under the scanner
Digging into X and Musk’s Grok AI platform, French prosecutors encountered history of biased and incorrect algorithms, propagation of deepfakes, and illustrations of pornographic references including minors.
The official handle of Paris’ prosecutor’s office shared an update on the raids on X on Tuesday. With this post, the agency said it was quitting the platform to now stay connected via LinkedIn and Instagram.
A search is being carried out at the French premises of X by the cybercrime unit of the Paris public prosecutor’s office. The Paris public prosecutor’s office is leaving X. Find us on Lkd and Insta,” the Parquet de Paris posted.
Musk is yet to comment on the development.
The development follows similar controversies that Musk and his AI chatbot Grok have faced in 2025. In July, for instance, Turkey had banned Grok over “politically inaccurate” AI content generation and unfiltered results.
As of early February 2026, Indonesia, the UK, and Malaysia are other regions that had temporarily blocked Grok’s access on X over inappropriate and sexualised content generation.
UK’s technology secretary has proposed criminalizing the creation of non-consensual intimate deepfakes in the aftermath of the Grok debacle.