Police raided the Paris offices of Elon Musk’s social media company X on Tuesday amid a wide-ranging probe into allegations that X has allowed sexually explicit deepfakes on its platform and has abused its algorithms. The Paris prosecutor’s office sent a cybercrime unit to X’s offices and summoned Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino …
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Police raided the Paris offices of Elon Musk’s social media company X on Tuesday amid a wide-ranging probe into allegations that X has allowed sexually explicit deepfakes on its platform and has abused its algorithms.
The Paris prosecutor’s office sent a cybercrime unit to X’s offices and summoned Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino to appear for a hearing in Paris on April 20, Reuters reported. France’s investigation into X began last year with the European country looking into alleged bias in the social media platform’s algorithms. That investigation has now expanded as prosecutors in Paris are investigating allegations that pornographic deepfakes, including child pornography, and Holocaust denialism have been allowed to spread on X.
