The French headquarters of Elon Musk’s social media platform X were raided Tuesday with the tech billionaire and the company’s ex-CEO summoned for questioning as part of an investigation into alleged cybercrime.
Suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography underpin the probe run by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office.
“A search is under way by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office, the national police cyber unit and Europol,” the office said in a post on X on Tuesday, further adding it would no longer be publishing on the network, telling users instead to “find us on LinkedIn and Instagram.”
It added in a statement that Musk and Linda Yaccarino had been summoned for voluntary
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