Elon Musk snubs France prosecutors over X, Grok probe

Elon Musk on Monday failed to appear for a voluntary interview with France prosecutors, who had summoned the American tech billionaire over a probe into his social media platform X and AI chatbok Grok.

Prosecutors said they had “taken note of the absence of the first people summoned,” without mentioning Musk’s name.

The X owner had dubbed the French authorities “retards” weeks earlier in a French-language X post.

“The presence or absence of the people summoned is not an obstacle to continuing the investigation,” the prosecutors added.

They had issued the summons in February as part of an investigation, launched in January 2025, into allegations that X’s algorithm was used to interfere in French politics.

France summons Elon Musk over X probe

The probe was later expanded to include dissemination of Holocaust denial and sexual deepfakes by X’s AI chatbot Grok, according to AFP.

French prosecutors in February also searched the Paris offices of X, in what the social media giant – which has denied any wrongdoing – slammed as “politicized” raids and an “abusive judicial act”.

At the time, Paris prosecutors also summoned Musk and then-CEO Linda Yaccarino for voluntary interviews as the “de facto and de jure managers of the X platform at the time of the events”, a move Musk called a “political attack”.

Yaccarino resigned as CEO of X in July last year after two years at the helm of the company.