France, Feb. 4 -- French investigators carried out a search on Tuesday at the Paris headquarters of social media platform X, as part of a widening judicial investigation into the platform's content moderation and use of artificial intelligence.

The Paris public prosecutor's office also confirmed that Elon Musk, who has owned the platform since 2022, has been formally summoned.

The operation was conducted at X's French offices by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor's office, working alongside a specialised unit of the national gendarmerie and Europol, the EU's law enforcement agency.

The authorities confirmed the search in a brief statement published on X itself.

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