{"id":2564186,"date":"2026-02-03T18:28:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-prosecutors-raid-musks-x-paris-office-while-uk-opens-new-investigation-into-xs-ai-chatbot-grok\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:34:31","slug":"french-prosecutors-raid-musks-x-paris-office-while-uk-opens-new-investigation-into-xs-ai-chatbot-grok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-prosecutors-raid-musks-x-paris-office-while-uk-opens-new-investigation-into-xs-ai-chatbot-grok\/","title":{"rendered":"French prosecutors raid Musk&#8217;s X Paris office, while UK opens new investigation into X\u2019s AI chatbot Grok"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrench-prosecutors-raid-musks-x-paris-office-while-uk-opens-new-investigation-into-xs-ai-chatbot-grok%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2564186&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>French prosecutors, aided by Europol and French police, raided X\u2019s Paris offices as part of an expanding investigation into alleged offenses tied to the platform, including non-consensual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/your-daughters-face-could-be-hijacked-for-deepfake-porn\/\" title=\"Beware: Your Daughter&#039;s Face Vulnerable to &#039;Deepfake&#039; Porn\">sexual deepfakes<\/a>, Holocaust-denial content, algorithmic bias, and unlawful data extraction. The probe has broadened to encompass X\u2019s Grok AI, with SpaceX\u2019s acquisition of xAI announced the day before the raid, signaling a tighter Musk-led tech ecosystem. elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino have been summoned for voluntary questioning in April, though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-the-democrats-election-heist-too-big-to-fail\/\" title=\"Is the Democrats... Election Heist \u2018Too Big to Fail...?\">questions remain<\/a> about whether the French judiciary can compel U.S. executives to attend. separately, the UK Data Commissioner\u2019s Office opened a formal investigation into X and xAI over personal-data processing and the potential to generate harmful images or video content.The French probe targets offenses such as possession and distribution of CSAM, invasion of personal rights through sexual deepfakes, denial of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/british-playwright-tom-stoppard-who-won-academy-award-for-shakespeare-in-love-has-died-at-88\/\" title=\"British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won Academy Award for Shakespeare In Love, has died at 88\">historic tragedies<\/a>, and fraudulent data extraction, with managers expected to explain their compliance measures in voluntary interviews. France\u2019s Holocaust-denial laws (Gayssot Act) frame the investigation, amid Grok-generated content that questioned the Holocaust, which was later retracted. the EU has also scrutinized Grok for non-consensual deepfakes, and Brussels recently fined X \u20ac120 million for deceptive design practices related to its paid blue-check system.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article id=\"post-759090\">\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>(Background) The exterior of the building housing the offices of X in Paris, France. (Photo by Pierre Suu\/Getty Images) \/ (R) Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX on February 1, 2026. (Photo by SAUL LOEB \/ AFP via Getty Images) \/ ( L) the Grok Imagine website on January 26, 2026 in Miami, Florida. (Photo illustration by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN Staff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/cory-hawkins\">Cory Hawkins<\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>3:18 PM &ndash; Tuesday, February 3, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The Paris prosecutor&rsquo;s cybercrime unit, with support from Europol and French police, raided X&rsquo;s Paris offices on Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged offenses linked to the platform, including the creation and distribution of non-consensual sexual deepfakes, Holocaust denial content, algorithmic biases and unlawful data extraction.<\/p>\n<p>French authorities launched their raid just one day after X owner Elon Musk announced that SpaceX had acquired xAI. This record-setting merger integrates the Grok AI directly into the rocket and satellite giant, further centralizing Musk&rsquo;s technological ecosystem.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI&lsquo;s mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!&rdquo; Musk declared.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The investigation, which began in early 2025 and has since expanded to include X&rsquo;s AI chatbot Grok, has also led to summonses for Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino, who stepped down from her position in July last year, to appear for voluntary questioning in April.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, while French prosecutors have summoned Musk and Yaccarino to appear in court, it remains unclear if the French judiciary has the legal jurisdiction to compel the U.S.-based executives to attend. Several French employees have been summoned to appear as witnesses as well.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, but on the same day, the UK&rsquo;s Information Commissioner&rsquo;s Office (ICO) also announced a new formal investigation into X and xAI, Musk&rsquo;s company behind Grok, regarding the AI chatbot&rsquo;s processing of personal data and its &ldquo;potential to generate harmful images and video content,&rdquo; officials said. <\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor&rsquo;s office noted that the probe is investigating specific criminal offenses related to alleged involvement in possession and distribution of child sex abuse material (CSAM), the violation of personal rights through AI generation of &ldquo;sexual deepfakes,&rdquo; the &ldquo;denial of historic tragedies&rdquo; and fraudulent extraction of data from an automated processing system.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;The voluntary interviews with the managers should enable them to explain their position on the facts and, where applicable, the compliance measures envisaged,&rdquo; the prosecutor&rsquo;s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to reports, a major catalyst for the &ldquo;denial of historic tragedies&rdquo; charge involves Grok. <\/p>\n<p>France has laws that specifically criminalize Holocaust denial and related antisemitic speech. The Gayssot Act of 1990 makes it illegal to question the existence of crimes against humanity as defined in the Nuremberg Trials, which includes the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>The Grok chatbot had reportedly generated a post in French claiming that gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau were intended only for &ldquo;disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>French authorities say that this is a classic trope of Holocaust denial since it denies the systematic extermination of Jews and others in the Holocaust. Although it doesn&rsquo;t outright say &ldquo;the Holocaust didn&rsquo;t happen,&rdquo; it still distorts the historical purpose of the gas chambers, prosecutors added. <\/p>\n<p>While Grok eventually retracted its statements and acknowledged the historical reality of the Holocaust, French law enforces a &ldquo;zero-tolerance&rdquo; policy that treats the initial distribution of such revisionist content as a criminal offense. <\/p>\n<p>Last year, X was also forced to scrub content after Grok was flagged for generating praise for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler following a surge of user complaints.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;The reports about Grok raise deeply troubling questions about how people&rsquo;s personal data has been used to generate intimate or sexualized images without their knowledge or consent, and whether the necessary safeguards were put in place to prevent this,&rdquo; said William Malcolm, an executive director at the Commissioners&rsquo; Office.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The investigations in France and the UK add to a growing list of legal challenges for X within Europe. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, the European Commission, the executive arm of the 27-nation EU, launched a formal probe after Grok was used to generate and circulate nonconsensual deepfakes across the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, this follows a massive &euro;120 million ($130 million) fine recently levied by Brussels. The EU had penalized X for &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/x-offices-raided-in-france-as-prosecutors-investigate-child-abuse-images-and-deepfakes\/\" title=\"X ...s r... in France as prosecutors investigate child abuse images and deepfakes\">deceptive design practices&#038;rdquo<\/a>; related to its blue checkmark system, ruling that the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >paid verification model misled users<\/a> and created a vacuum for scams and large-scale manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive breaking news blasts directly to your inbox for free. Subscribe here.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oann.com\/#\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('disqus_thread').scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth' }); return false;\">        <\/p>\n<p>What do YOU think? Click here to jump to the comments!<\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Sponsored Content Below<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two options. <\/p>\n<p>55-character caption (fits the limit you requested):<br \/>\n&#8211; France raids X over deepfakes and Holocaust denial.<\/p>\n<p>Concise paraphrase of the article:<br \/>\n&#8211; French cybercrime investigators, with Europol and police, raided X\u2019s Paris offices as part of a probe into alleged offenses tied to the platform, including non-consensual sexual deepfakes, denial of the Holocaust, biased algorithms, and unlawful data harvesting. The timing followed Elon Musk\u2019s announcement that SpaceX has acquired xAI, which would integrate Grok into his tech empire. Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino have been summoned for voluntary questioning, though it\u2019s unclear whether French courts can compel U.S. executives to attend. The UK ICO also opened a separate investigation into Grok\u2019s processing of personal data and its potential to generate harmful images or videos. Prosecutors highlighted potential offenses related to CSAM, AI-generated sexual content, denial of historic tragedies, and data extraction, with managers expected to explain their positions and safeguards. French law, including the Gayssot Act, criminalizes Holocaust denial; a Grok post suggesting Auschwitz gas chambers were for \u201cdisinfection\u201d prompted concern. Grok had previously been flagged for praising Adolf Hitler, and X was pressured to remove such content. The EU has added pressure on X and Grok through a formal Brussels probe and a \u20ac120 million fine for deceptive design practices around the blue-check system. 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