The Paris Prosecutor’s Office has orderedAccording to Reuters, the registration of the offices that the social networkowned by SpaceX after it just bought xAI, has in Paris (France)The registration, ongoing, is part of an investigation that French authorities opened in January 2025 due to complaints about the network’s algorithms and the content it recommends to its users, as well as accusations related to the spread of child pornography and deepfakes.
The section in charge of this registry is the Cybercrime Unit of the Prosecutor’s Office, with the collaboration of Europol and the cybercrime unit of the French police. Furthermore, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, both Elon Musk and the former CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino, have been called to testify voluntarily on April 20 as part of the aforementioned investigation. Apart from the two, there are several other network employees summoned in April to testify as witnesses, although their identity has not been revealed.
This investigation has its origins in the complaint by a French deputy about the probability that the social network has a biased algorithm, and that it has manipulated an automated data processing system as part of a collaboration with an organized group.
Later, following additional reports that its AI chatbot Grok was denying the Holocaust and spreading sexually explicit deepfakes, it was expanded to include the social network’s alleged complicity in the spread of pornographic images of minors and sexually explicit deepfakes, as well as denial of the commission of crimes against humanity.
Apart from this record, and the ongoing investigation, The Paris Prosecutor’s Office has also confirmed that it will stop publishing on Xand that from now on he will maintain his communications only on LinkedIn and Instagram. Additionally, ask your followers to join other social networks.
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