Musk ignored the French summons to appearFrance is scrambling to censor free-speech X.We have been reporting on how France is waging lawfare against free-speech X platform, and how US authorities refused to aid in the nefarious lawsuit, as you can read in DOJ Refuses Cooperation, Warns France to Back Off Censorship Probe Targeting X Platform.Today (20), it arose that the platform owner, tech billionaire Elon Musk did not appear at a summons for questioning in a French probe into X and its AI chatbot, Grok.The investigation began looking into alleged abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.Reuters reported:“The investigation, which has been expanded in past months to include suspected complicity in the distribution of child pornography and the creation of sexual deepfakes by Grok, has added to strains in relations between the U.S. and Europe over Big Tech and free speech.”Musk called France’s probe ‘politically motivated.’Today’s summons date was set in February, when the Paris prosecutor’s cybercrime unit raided the X French offices.“The prosecutor’s office notes the absence of the first individuals who were summoned. Their presence or absence does not hinder the continuation of the investigation,” the prosecutor’s statement said, without mentioning Musk by name.While attendance at Monday’s hearing was mandatory, the authorities at this stage could not compel Musk, the world’s richest person, to appear. In July, Musk denied the initial accusations and said French prosecutors were launching a ‘politically-motivated criminal investigation’.”Read more:Elon Musk Offers to Personally Pay TSA Workers’ Salaries as Partial DHS Shutdown Leaves Them Unpaid for Over a Month/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i