Elon Musk has been summoned to a voluntary interview by French authorities on Monday as they continue to probe his platform X, but whether the tech billionaire will turn up remains to be seen.
The company's offices were raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit in February over suspected criminal offences related to content on the platform.
First opened in 2025, the investigation was expanded to encompass concerns raised over whether X's controversial chatbot Grok was used to create non-consensual sexual deepfake imagery.
When asked for comment, X pointed the BBC to a previous post by Musk in which he labelled the probe a political attack.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the US Justice Department told French authorities it would not assist in their investigation of X, accusing them of misusing the US justice system.
Musk's previous behavior raises the question of whether he will attend this interview, as he had previously failed to show up for a court-ordered appearance in Los Angeles regarding SEC investigations.
Prosecutors in Paris are investigating X over a range of suspected offences. These include complicity in possession or organized distribution of child sexual abuse material, infringement of people's image rights with sexual deepfakes, and suspected fraudulent data extraction by an organized group.
X has previously denied wrongdoing and described allegations as baseless.
Linda Yaccarino, X's former chief executive, was also summoned for questioning alongside Musk.
