India, Feb. 3 -- French authorities summoned billionaire Elon Musk to a "voluntary interview" and searched the local offices of his social media network X on Tuesday in a probe into alleged political interference and sexual deepfakes.

The operation comes as both Britain and the European Union have opened separate probes into the generation of sexualised deepfakes of women and children by Musk's AI chatbot Grok.

"Summons for voluntary interviews on April 20, 2026, in Paris have been sent to Mr Elon Musk and Ms Linda Yaccarino, in their capacity as de facto and de jure managers of the X platform at the time of the events," the Paris prosecutor's office was quoted by AFP as saying.

Yaccarino resigned as CEO of X in July last year after se...