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Prosecutors have filed requests for voluntary interviews of Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino as the authorities in France scrutinize X, formerly Twitter, and its Grok AI.
A team of French police officers, alongside Europol operatives, searched the social media platform’s office in Paris, the French capital, on Tuesday.
Musk and Yaccarino are expected to appear on April 20 for questions about the use of the company’s AI chatbot to create sexualized images of women and children, among others.
Paris public prosecutor Laure Beccuau explained that the aim was to ensure that X “complies with French law, as it operates on the national territory.”
A list of allegations released by the government includes: defamation of a person’s image (deepfakes of sexual nature); denial of crimes against humanity (Holocaust), and operating an illegal online platform by an organized group.
Others are: complicity in the possession of images of minors (pornographic); complicity in the distribution of or offering minors’ images (pornographic); and fraudulent extraction of data from an automated data processing system.
Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has not directly responded to the raid and investigation, but the world’s richest man has reposted comments critical of the French operation.
Musk often accuses Europe of information censorship and election interference, yet more countries on the continent, including Spain and the United Kingdom, have indicated a probe of X and Grok.
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The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced plans to deport at least 79 Nigerian nationals convicted of serious crimes, placing them on what the agency describes as its “worst-of-the-worst” criminal list amid an intensified immigration enforcement drive.
The individuals, whose names were published on the DHS website on Monday, were convicted of offenses ranging from fraud and drug trafficking to assault, manslaughter, and armed robbery. According to U.S. authorities, the arrests were part of a broader crackdown targeting criminal immigrants across the country.
DHS said the Nigerians were apprehended through coordinated operations led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has expanded enforcement actions under the Trump administration’s immigration policy.
In an accompanying statement, the department said the effort reflects a renewed focus on removing non-citizens with criminal convictions from the United States. “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is highlighting the worst of the worst criminal aliens arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” the statement said.
“Under Secretary Noem’s leadership, the hardworking men and women of DHS and ICE are fulfilling President Trump’s promise and carrying out mass deportations, starting with the worst of the worst.”
