Paris prosecutors Office has partnered that the search for the offices belongs to Elon Musk’s X platform as part of an ongoing investigation that was first launched by January 2025. The raid was carried out by Paris and the national cybercrime units, with support from Interpol, according to a post from Paris prosecutors of X. Officials from X have not yet commented on the matter.

At the same time, prosecutors in Paris issued summons to Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino for “voluntary interviews” on April 20, 2026 in Paris. The prosecutors also announced that they will no longer use X and will only communicate on LinkedIn and Instagram in the future.

The searches are part of an investigation that has been ongoing for nearly a year due to the functioning of X’s algorithms that “likely distorted the operation of an automated data processing system,” investigators said. said at the time. Those changes reportedly gave more prominence to some political content (mainly from Musk) without the user’s knowledge — something that could be a crime under French laws.

An investigation officially launched in Julywith prosecutors in Paris adding an additional charge: “Fraudulent extraction of data from an automated data processing system by an organized group.” Recently, it also includes “the complexity of owning images of minors that represent a pedo-pornographic character,” due to the images made by Grok between December 25, 2025 and January 1, 2026.

In July, X said in a statement that the investigation “seriously undermines X’s fundamental right to due process and threatens our users’ rights to privacy and freedom of speech. (French officials) accused X of manipulating its algorithm for the purposes of ‘foreign interference’, an allegation that is completely false.”