French police raided the offices of Elon Musk¡¯s social media network X on Tuesday, and prosecutors ordered the tech billionaire to face questions in a widening investigation, amid growing scrutiny of the platform by authorities across Europe.

The raid by the Paris prosecutor¡¯s cybercrime unit and Musk¡¯s summoning ¡ª which could further increase tensions ?between Europe and the U.S. over Big Tech and free speech ¡ª are linked to a yearlong investigation into suspected abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction ?by ?X or its executives.

Britain¡¯s privacy watchdog, meanwhile, also kicked off a formal investigation into Musk¡¯s artificial-intelligence chatbot Grok over the ?processing of personal data and its potential to produce harmful sexual images and video content.