This latest legal step follows Musk's failure to respond to a summons by the Paris prosecutor's office to appear for a voluntary interview on April 20. Since summer 2025, national cyber prosecutors had been probing numerous alleged abuses in a preliminary investigation.

France is investigating whether Elon Musk and his social media app X were complicit in spreading harmful AI deepfakes.

French prosecutors said Wednesday that they have opened an investigation into Elon Musk and social media platform X over the distribution of child sexual abuse images, deepfakes,…

Es geht um angeblich manipulierte Algorithmen, Deepfakes und Holocaustleugnung: Die Staatsanwaltschaft in Paris ermittelt gegen Elon Musk, dessen Netzwerk X sowie…

France threatens criminal charges if Musk doesn't appear for questioning.