The Paris prosecutor's office summons of Elon Musk in the X/Grok investigation entered Day 9 with no Musk appearance and no U.S. mutual-assistance cooperation. [1] The Department of Justice declined to assist France's probe earlier in the week; the weekend produced no reversal. [2] [3]

The paper's Saturday note that no second European jurisdiction had joined the prosecution treated the case as procedurally isolated. Sunday confirms the frame and sharpens its meaning. Mutual assistance is the legal scaffolding through which one country enforces a subpoena across borders. Without it, the French case is rhetorical pressure backed by domestic process.

Musk's own X post — "This needs to stop" [2] — is the most-quoted line on the platform side. Telegram founder Pavel Durov added that France was "weaponizing criminal investigations to suppress free speech and privacy." [1] Whether one believes those readings, they are the discourse the prosecution now lives inside.

The story is no longer about whether algorithmic manipulation occurred; the question is who has standing to investigate it. France argues the platform's harm is on French territory. Washington argues the platform is American speech. The case stays open. The doctrine has not.

-- MAYA CALLOWAY, New York