Police Raid Elon Musk's X Paris Office in Criminal Probe

Social Media Network Faces Legal Barrage From France, United Kingdom and Spain David Meyer • February 3, 2026

France, the United Kingdom and Spain all laid into Elon Musk's X on Tuesday, with an extraordinary legal barrage that came shortly after the mogul announced his SpaceX rocket venture had bought xAI, of which X is a subsidiary.

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In the space of a few hours, French authorities raided X's office in Paris, the British privacy regulator opened a formal investigation of X and xAI, and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced legal proposals that would criminalize algorithmic manipulation and the amplification of illegal content, making executive like Musk personally liable.

Both the French and British actions were explicitly about X's distribution of child sexual abuse images that had been generated by its in-house AI chatbot ...