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Elon Musk did not appear on Monday for a voluntary interview with Paris prosecutors, who had summoned the American tech billionaire over a probe into his social media platform X and AI chatbot Grok.
Prosecutors said they had “taken note of the absence of the first people summoned”, without mentioning Musk’s name.
The billionaire had dubbed the French authorities “retards” weeks earlier in a French-language X post.
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“The presence or absence [of the people summoned] is not an obstacle to continuing the investigation,” prosecutors added.
They had issued the summons in February as part of an investigation, launched in January 2025, into allegations that X’s algorithm was used to interfere in French politics.
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The probe was later expanded to include dissemination of Holocaust denial and sexual deepfakes by X’s AI chatbot Grok.
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