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Elon Musk, summoned for a free listening to in Paris as a part of an investigation into the doable abuses of his social community No data has leaked on the placement and time of this summons from Elon Musk, who denounced “a political attack”.

Along with the previous normal director of X, Linda Yaccarino, they’re focused “in their capacity as de facto and legal manager of the

This is at the forefront in the fight against the impunity of web giants. He has already opened investigations into the activities of Telegram messaging, the Kick livestreaming platform, the TikTok video application and the Shein online sales site.

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But the investigation into X is the most symbolic. It targets one of the largest social networks in the world, owned by Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet, once close to Donald Trump.

The procedure did not leave the multi-billionaire indifferent. Especially since French magistrates ordered a search of X’s Parisian premises in mid-February and summoned him.

“They are mentally retarded,” he said, in the language of Molière, on his X network in mid-March.

X criticizes an “abusive judicial act”

Opened in January 2025, the French investigation, which is being handled by the national cyber unit of the gendarmerie, “focuses on doable violations by platform

In explicit, doable complicity within the distribution of kid pornography photographs and using X’s synthetic intelligence mannequin for the creation of “deepfakes”, that’s to say ultra-realistic montages of a sexual nature, with out the consent of the victims, he mentioned. In a publication, the social community denounced throughout the searches an “abusive judicial act” primarily based “on political motivations” and refuted any offense. He assured that he would “not allow himself to be intimidated”.

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“The Paris prosecutor’s office is clearly trying to exert pressure on the general management of X in the United States by targeting (its) French entity,” estimated the American firm.

Update from the Paris prosecutor’s workplace on Saturday: “in accordance with French criminal procedure, which guarantees each accused the possibility of expressing themselves on the facts of which they are suspected, the managers and staff of company X are subject to summons for a free hearing”, he recalled. But “their presence or absence is not an obstacle to the continuation of investigations,” he continued.

“The conduct of this investigation is at this stage part of a constructive approach”, beforehand indicated the Paris prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, “with the objective of ultimately guaranteeing the conformity of the X platform with French laws”.

“The judicial authorities of different nations have additionally opened investigations focusing on

A letter from the US Department of Justice

On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported on a letter despatched by the worldwide affairs workplace of the American Department of Justice, however the Paris prosecutor’s workplace advised AFP that it “is not aware of this letter.”

In this missive, the federal justice system takes a place for X, contemplating specifically that the Paris investigation goes towards the primary modification of the American Constitution on freedom of expression, in line with the every day.

Not sufficient to alter the French investigation: “it is necessary to remember that the French Constitution guarantees the separation of powers and the independence of the judicial authority. Criminal investigations are carried out under the sole authority of magistrates”, remembers the Paris prosecutor’s workplace.

With AFP