X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok
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X's French offices were raided by Paris prosecutors investigating suspected illegal data extraction and possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM, images depicting the sexual abuse of children), while the UK's Information Commissioner's Office launched a separate investigation into Grok (Elon Musk's AI chatbot) for its ability to create harmful sexualized images and videos without people's consent. The investigations were triggered by reports that Grok generated sexual deepfakes (fake sexual images created using real photos of women without permission) that were shared on X.
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Original source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
First tracked: February 12, 2026 at 02:20 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%