Elon Musk, the multibillionaire who owns X, failed to appear for a voluntary interview in France on Monday as part of Paris authorities’ investigation into his social media platform and artificial intelligence chatbot,

France has summoned Elon Musk over an expanding probe into X, focusing on alleged algorithmic interference, deepfakes and harmful AI content linked to Grok chatbot.

The Justice Department (DOJ) has informed French authorities that it will not contribute to an investigation into billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

The Trump Justice Department is not playing along with France, as US officials refused to help French investigators go after Elon Musk’s platform X after a raid hit the company’s Paris office earlier this year.

Elon Musk was summoned for a hearing in Paris on Monday as part of a probe into X and alleged irregularities around its algorithms as well as its AI tool Grok’s role in the dissemination of Holocaust

Just days before Elon Musk is due to appear before the cybercrime unit of the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reveals that it has lodged a complaint against his social media platform X with the same unit.

Musk faces questions as part of a year-long probe in France into suspected abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction by X or its executives.