French authorities have sharply intensified scrutiny of one of the world’s largest social media platforms.

The move followed a yearlong investigation into X and escalated a wider standoff between European officials and American tech companies over the regulation of social media.

French officials search X's office in Paris and ask Elon Musk to answer questions about the platform amid a probe into its algorithms and AI functions.

After Elon Musk called the raid on X’s Paris office as a ‘political attack’, France said that investigating child sexual abuse material was not controversial. France is investigating X’s chatbot Grok for generating sexually explicit deepfakes and Musk has ramped up his anti-EU rhetoric.

French prosecutors have raided the offices of social media platform X as part of a preliminary investigation into allegations that include spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes.

Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino face mounting legal scrutiny in France as authorities reportedly escalate a high-profile cybercrime investigation into the platform. Prosecutors summoned the tech executives following a raid on X’s Paris offices earlier this week,

Paris prosecutors have raided Elon Musk's X offices in France as part of an investigation into child abuse images and deepfakes. The inquiry began in January 2022, focusing on alleged crimes such as the distribution of child pornography and Holocaust denial.

French prosecutors raided Xs offices and summoned Elon Musk as they probe allegations linked to algorithms, data extraction, and Grok.

YouTube is experiencing a widespread global outage, with thousands of users reporting issues loading videos on both the app and website. Problems include video playback failure, login issues, and streaming interruptions.