French authorities raid Elon Musk’s X offices in probe tied to child abuse images

French authorities raided offices tied to Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Tuesday as part of a widening criminal investigation into the alleged dissemination of child sexual abuse material generated through user-created deepfake images, The Wall Street Journal reported. The probe has reportedly expanded to examine whether X’s algorithm may also amount to foreign interference in France’s elections, prompting officials to seek a voluntary interview with Musk. Carried out with assistance from Europol, the raid marks the latest escalation in Musk’s long-running standoff with European regulators, who enforce stricter limits on platform content than the U.S. Musk declined to comment to the Journal, but the raid comes as he has publicly scrambled to defend himself amid newly surfaced emails linking him to Jeffrey Epstein that appear to undermine his past denials.

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