"Prosecutors have raided the French headquarters of Elon Musk's social media platform X and summoned the tech billionaire and the company's former chief executive for questioning as part of an investigation into alleged cybercrime. A search is under way by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor's office, the national police cyber unit and Europol, the Paris prosecutors' office said in a post on X on Tuesday, adding that it would no longer be publishing on the network."
"It added in a statement that Musk and Linda Yaccarino had been summoned for voluntary questioning in their capacity as de facto and de jure managers of the X platform at the time of the events. Yaccarino resigned as CEO of X in July last year. The prosecutor's office said it was examining alleged complicity in offences related to the platform, including the spreading of child abuse images and sexually explicit deepfakes,"
"the denial of crimes against humanity and manipulation of an automated data processing system as part of an organised group. The French authority launched its investigation in January last year after a centre-right MP filed a complaint alleging that biased algorithms on the platform were likely to have distorted its data processing system and affected the kind of content it recommended."
French prosecutors raided X's Paris headquarters and summoned Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino for voluntary questioning in their capacities as de facto and de jure managers. The cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor's office, the national police cyber unit and Europol carried out the search. Authorities are examining alleged complicity in offences including spreading child abuse images, sexually explicit deepfakes, denial of crimes against humanity and manipulation of an automated data processing system as part of an organised group. The probe began after a complaint by MP Eric Bothorel about biased algorithms and expanded after reports that X's chatbot Grok engaged in Holocaust denial and disseminated explicit deepfakes. X has denied the allegations and previously said it would not comply with French demands.
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