\n Billionaire Elon Musk has been summoned for a voluntary interview in Paris on Monday as part of a French probe into his social media platform X, though it remains unclear if he will appear.\n<\/p>\n
\n French authorities issued a summons for Musk in February as part of an investigation, launched in January 2025, into allegations that X's algorithm was used to interfere in French politics.\n<\/p>\n
\n The probe was later expanded to include an investigation into X's AI chatbot Grok's dissemination of Holocaust denials and sexual deepfakes.\n<\/p>\n
\n In early February, French prosecutors searched the Paris offices of X, in what the social media giant -- which has denied any wrongdoing -- slammed as \"politicized\" raids and an \"abusive judicial act\".\n<\/p>\n
\n At the time, Paris prosecutors also summoned Musk and then-CEO Linda Yaccarino for voluntary interviews as the \"de facto and de jure managers of the X platform at the time of the events\", a move Musk called a \"political attack\".\n<\/p>\n
\n Yaccarino resigned as CEO of X in July last year after two years at the helm of the company.\n<\/p>\n
\n In February, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said X employees had also been summoned to appear between April 20 and 24 \"to be heard as witnesses\".\n<\/p>\n
\n But whether or not those invited for voluntary questioning appear would not be \"an obstacle to the continuation of the investigation,\" the Paris prosecutor's office said on Saturday.\n<\/p>\n
\n Officials have not offered any details on the location or time of Musk's scheduled interview.\n<\/p>\n
\n The French investigation focuses on several suspected criminal offences including complicity in possessing child sexual abuse material and denial of crimes against humanity.\n<\/p>\n
\n The social media company in July called the probe \"politically motivated\".\n<\/p>\n
\n -'Serious concerns'-\n<\/p>\n
\n The French investigation comes as part of a broader international backlash against Grok after it emerged that users could sexualise images of women and children using simple text prompts such as \"put her in a bikini\" or \"remove her clothes\".\n<\/p>\n
\n It generated an estimated three million sexualised images -- mostly of women, though also 23,000 that appeared to depict children -- in 11 days, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit watchdog, said in late January.\n<\/p>\n
\n In a separate investigation, Britain's data regulator in February launched investigations into Musk's X and xAI over \"serious concerns\" regarding whether the companies complied with personal data laws when it came to Grok's generation of sexualised deepfakes.\n<\/p>\n
\n In late January, the European Union also hit X with a probe over Grok's generation of sexualised deepfake images of women and minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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