“In March, the Paris prosecutor’s office alerted the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) — the US federal agency responsible for regulating and overseeing financial markets — suggesting “that the controversy surrounding sexually explicit deepfakes generated by Grok may have been deliberately orchestrated to artificially boost the value of the companies X and xAI — potentially constituting criminal offenses,” prosecutors said.”

“The Paris prosecutor’s office said this could have been done “ahead of the planned June 2026 stock market listing of the new entity formed by the merger of Space X and xAI, at a time when company X was clearly losing momentum.””

“The Justice Department told French law enforcement authorities it wouldn’t facilitate their efforts to investigate Musk’s X.”

“The newspaper reported that the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, in a two-page letter last week, accused the French of inappropriately using its justice system to interfere with an American business.”

“Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said it has lodged a new complaint against X with the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office, It “targets the platform’s policies that allow disinformation to flourish,” RSF said, accusing the U.S. billionaire’s company of repeated violations of the public’s right to reliable information.”