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French police have raided X’s offices in Paris and summoned its chairman, Elon Musk, to testify, in an escalation of a multifaceted investigation into the social media platform’s data use, deepfake porn generation, and other allegations of wrongdoing.

Cybercrime investigators in France have been probing the company for over a year, with authorities looking into the company for allegations of abuse of algorithms under Musk and fraudulent data extraction.

The investigation has expanded in recent months, Paris’s chief prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement on Tuesday. Recently, the investigation has expanded to include allegations of the possession of child sexual abuse material, after X’s AI........

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