French authorities have launched a search of the social media platform X’s offices in Paris as part of a cybercrime investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday. Newsweek contacted X for comment via email outside of regular working hours. The operation is being carried out with the national cyber unit of the Gendarmerie and Europol, according to a post from the prosecutor's office on Elon Musk 's social media platform. In the same post, the prosecutor'