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Elon Musk has not attended a voluntary interview he was summoned to appear at in Paris, according to French authorities probing his platform X.

The company's offices were raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit in February over suspected criminal offences related to content on the platform.

Musk was given the date of 20 April for an interview as part of an investigation first launched in 2025 but later widened over concerns about X's chatbot Grok being used to create non-consensual sexual deepfake images.

The Paris prosecutor's office told the BBC in a statement on Monday - without naming Musk - it had "taken note of the absence of the people summoned".

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[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Honestly that's standard for a foreign national when appearing before government investigation committees, particularly one who doesn't think they'd do well when grilled by people with way more experience in arguing the point, see Mark Zuckerberg not attending his invite to a UK parliament select committee hearing.

It'd be a bold and stupid play for him to show up and incriminate himself further, though it would have been entertaining to watch the moment of realisation that he's in way over his head spread across his face.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They ask first...

If it comes to it, they can't try to extradite it. If musk gets out of that, it would only be by paying off trump and that won't last forever and comes with strings

Meanwhile it limits musk from pretty much every other country he'd want to go to.

Basically putting him on house arrest in America, and he'd hate that.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 9 points 5 days ago

If the other governments weren't face-down-bottom-up in a bootlicking contest. See also: Benjamin Netanyahoo.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

I still hope his ego won't take the hit and he'll go in the end