, Feb. 4 -- French authorities have launched a sweeping investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X, raiding its offices on February 3 as part of a probe into the company's algorithms and its artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok.

French prosecutors have summoned Musk and former X chief executive Linda Yaccarino to appear at hearings on April 20. Several other X employees have also been called to testify as witnesses during the same week.

The cybercrime division of the Paris prosecutor's office is examining X over seven separate allegations, including complicity in the distribution of child sexual abuse imagery, dissemination of content denying crimes against humanity, and fraudulent extraction of data. The details were outli...