France summons Elon Musk over X probe

X owner Elon Musk has been summoned for a voluntary interview in Paris on Monday, April 20, 2026, as part of a French probe into the social media platform.

French authorities issued a summons for Musk in February as part of an investigation, launched in January 2025, into allegations that X’s algorithm was used to interfere in French politics.

The probe was later expanded to include an investigation into X’s AI chatbot Grok’s dissemination of Holocaust denials and sexual deepfakes.

In early February, French prosecutors 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 2025 after two years at the helm of the company.

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In February, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said X employees had also been summoned to appear between April 20 and 24 “to be heard as witnesses”.

The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Saturday that whether or not those invited for voluntary questioning appear would not be “an obstacle to the continuation of the investigation”.

Officials have not offered any details on the location or time of Musk’s scheduled interview.

The French investigation focuses on several suspected criminal offences including complicity in possessing child sexual abuse material and denial of crimes against humanity.