The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography.

The French offices of Elon Musk’s X have been raided by prosecutors as part of an investigation into the social media platform.

X has been under investigation for around a year in the French capital over allegations that algorithms in the social network were altered to give more attention to far-right content.