Why are French prosecutors investigating Elon Musk's X

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PARIS, Feb 3 (Reuters) - ‍French prosecutors said on Tuesday they were ​widening an investigation into Elon Musk's social ​media platform X and that they have summoned the tech billionaire for questioning in April.

A probe into ​alleged abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction was launched in January ​2025. That has now been expanded following complaints over ‌X's AI chatbot Grok, they said.

Here are the potential crimes the Paris ​prosecutor says it is ⁠now investigating:

* Complicity in the possession of images of minors of ‌apornographic nature * Complicity in the organised distribution, offering, ormaking available of images of minors ‌of a pornographic nature * Defamation of a person's ‌image (deepfakes of sexualnature) * Denial of crimes against humanity (Holocaust denial) * Fraudulent extraction of data from an automated ‍dataprocessing system by an organised group * Falsification of the operation of ⁠an automated dataprocessing system by an organised group * Operating of an illegal online platform by an organisedgroup.

(Reporting by Dominique Patton; editing by Richard Lough)

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