The French investigation into alleged algorithm manipulation by X has expanded to examine the spread of sexually explicit deepfakes. The French investigation into alleged algorithm manipulation by X has expanded to examine the spread of sexually explicit deepfakes. French headquarters of Elon Musk's X raided by Paris cybercrime unit Tue 3 Feb 2026 09.25 ESTFirst published on Tue 3 Feb 2026 06.42 EST Prosecutors have raided the French headquarters of Elon Musk's social media platform X and summoned the tech billionaire and the company's former chief executive for questioning as part of an investigation into alleged cybercrime. "A search is under way by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor's office, the national police cyber unit and Europol," the Paris prosecutors' office said in a post on X on Tuesday, adding that it would no longer be publishing on the network. It said in a statement that Musk and Linda Yaccarino had been summoned for "voluntary questioning" in their capacity as "de facto and de jure managers of the X platform at the time of the events".

This week, Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, saw its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok go Nazi. In the past three years of Musk's ownership of the social network, it feels like X has weathered at least one public crisis per week, more often multiple. Last week, Musk's artificial intelligence firm, xAI, saw its flagship chatbot Grok declare itself a super-Nazi, referring to itself as "MechaHitler". It made racist, sexist and antisemitic posts, which the company deleted. One example, via my colleague Josh Taylor: Grok referred to a person with a common Jewish surname as someone who was "celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids" in the Texas floods as "future fascists".

In May 2023, when Linda Yaccarino, an NBC advertising executive, joined what was then still known as Twitter, she was given a tall order: repair the company's relationship with advertisers after a chaotic year of being owned by Elon Musk. But just weeks after she became CEO, Musk posted an antisemitic tweet that drove away major brands like Disney, Paramount, NBCUniversal, Comcast, Lionsgate and Warner Bros Discovery to pause their advertising on the platform. Musk delivered an apology for the tweet later at a conference – which he called the worst post he's ever done – but it came with a message to advertisers, specifically the Disney CEO Bob Iger: "Go fuck yourselves". Yaccarino was in the audience of the conference. "I don't want them to advertise," he said.

Elon Musk-owned X's CEO Linda Yaccarino announced her resignation in a surprise move, just months after the social media platform was acquired by the billionaire's AI startup, xAI. In a statement posted on the platform Wednesday, the former NBCUniversal advertising executive said she had "decided to step down as CEO of X" following what she described as "two incredible years" leading the company through a major transformation. After two incredible years, I've decided to step down as CEO of . When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company. Yaccarino's departure from the social media company adds to the turbulence in Musk's sprawling business empire, including falling sales at his electric vehicle maker Tesla and artificial intelligence-related controversies.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence firm xAI has acquired his social media platform X in an all-stock transaction that values the company at 33 billion, including 12 billion worth of debt, the centibillionaire announced Friday. The sale comes just weeks after Musk reportedly raised an additional roughly 1 billion in debt financing for X that valued the company at 44 billion--the same price Musk paid for it three years ago. "xAI and X's futures are intertwined," Musk wrote in an X post. "Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent. This combination will unlock immense potential by blending xAI's advanced AI capability and expertise with X's massive reach."

Elon Musk's favourite movie quote, according to his biographer, is Gladiator's "Are you not entertained?" Some members of Musk's considerable global audience were also horrified as controversial statements and management decisions grabbed the headlines yet again this year. Musk's brother, Kimbal, told Walter Isaacson, author of the Elon Musk biography published in September, that his sibling was a "drama magnet". He added: "That's his compulsion, the theme of his life." That impulse was on full display in 2023.

Tinder is adding many new, pretty basic, features, including the profile prompts and basic info tags other dating apps, like Hinge or Bumble, have. Profile prompts, for example, are a long-standing feature on both, with Tinder users now able to share their responses to statements like "The first item on my bucket list is… " or "Two truths and a lie." The dating app points to Gen Z's responses in its recent Future of Dating report as motivation for the updates, saying: "At Tinder, we understand that connecting today is about authenticity, depth and the desire for connections that go beyond the surface." The company calls it a "rizz-first redesign," which equates to these new prompts, zodiac sign info and… new animations. You can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox.