A search is under way at the French offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X as part of a preliminary investigation into a range of alleged offences including spreading child pornography and deepfakes, prosecutors said.The investigation was opened in January last year by the Paris prosecutors’ cyber crime unit.It is looking into alleged “complicity” in spreading pornographic images of minors, sexually explicit deepfakes, denial of crimes against humanity and manipulation of an automated data processing system as part of an organised group, and other offences.In addition, prosecutors filed a request for “voluntary interviews” with Mr Musk and Linda Yaccarino, chief executive of X from 2023 to 2025, scheduled for April 20.Employees of the platform X have also been summoned that same week in April to be heard as witnesses, the statement said.