View 2 Images The building housing the offices of X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, after a raid by police on February 3 in Paris, France (Image: Pierre Suu/Getty Images) Offices of Elon Musk's X platform have been raided by French prosecutors as part of a preliminary investigation into a range of alleged offences, including spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes. ‌ An investigation was opened in January last year by the prosecutors’ cyber crime unit, the Paris prosecutors’ office said in a statement. It is looking into alleged “complicity” in possession and spreading of pornographic images of minors, sexually explicit deepfakes, denial of crimes against humanity and manipulation of an automated data processing system as part of an organised group, among other charges. ‌ In addition, prosecutors filed a request for “voluntary interviews” with Mr Musk and Linda Yaccarino, chief executive of X from 2023 to 2025, scheduled for April 20. ‌ Employees of the platform have also been summoned that same week in April to be heard as witnesses, the statement said. A spokesperson for X did not respond immediately to a request for comment. View 2 Images An investigation is looking into the alleged “complicity” in possession and spreading of pornographic images of minors, and sexually explicit deepfakes among other charges (Image: Yui Mok/PA Wire) In a message posted on X, the Paris prosecutors’ office announced the ongoing searches at the company’s offices in France and said it was leaving the platform while calling on followers to join on other social media. ‌ “At this stage, the conduct of the investigation is based on a constructive approach, with the aim of ultimately ensuring that the X platform complies with French law, as it operates on the national territory,” the statement said. European Union police agency Europol “is supporting the French authorities in this″, spokesperson Jan Op Gen Oorth told the Associated Press, without elaborating. The investigation was first opened following reports by a French politician alleging that biased algorithms on X were likely to have distorted the functioning of an automated data processing system. ‌ It was later expanded after X’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok generated posts that allegedly denied the Holocaust and spread sexually explicit deepfakes, the statement said. Holocaust denial is a crime in France. Grok wrote in a widely shared post in French that gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp were designed for “disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus” rather than for mass murder – language long associated with Holocaust denial. In later posts on its X account, the chatbot acknowledged that its earlier reply was wrong, said it had been deleted and pointed to historical evidence that Zyklon B in Auschwitz gas chambers was used to kill more than one million people. Article continues below Grok has a history of making antisemitic comments. Mr Musk’s company took down posts from the chatbot that appeared to praise Adolf Hitler after complaints. Follow Manchester Evening News: