{"id":405591,"date":"2026-02-03T12:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405591\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T12:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:28:07","slug":"musks-x-office-in-france-raided-by-paris-prosecutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405591\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk&#8217;s X office in France raided by Paris prosecutor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">X has yet to respond. BBC news has approached the company for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has previously described the investigation as an attack on free speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In its statement, the prosecutor&#8217;s office said the operation formed part of efforts to ensure X complied with French laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the probe, led by French cyber-crime police, was expanded in July 2025 after reports of sexually explicit deepfakes and holocaust denial content circulating on the platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">X previously described the widening of the probe <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GlobalAffairs\/status\/1947213316331282504\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">in a post at the time, external<\/a> as &#8220;politically-motivated&#8221; and denied allegations it had manipulated its algorithm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The prosecutor&#8217;s office also said it was leaving X and would communicate on LinkedIn and Instagram from now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"X has yet to respond. BBC news has approached the company for comment. It has previously described the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-405591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}