X spurns TDs and senators as Paris office is raided for allegedly facilitating child abuse images 

Google, Meta, and TikTok will be at Oireachtas media committee but — even amid the Grok 'nudification' scandal — Elon Musk's social media company is refusing to show up

Elon Musk's social media company X (formerly Twitter) is refusing to appear before the Oireachtas media committee which will be attended by representatives of Meta, Google, and TikTok. Picture: Vincent Feuray/Hans Lucas/AFP

Elon Musk’s social media company X is refusing to appear before an Oireachtas committee today, Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the company's Paris offices were raided over alleged complicity in the possession and organised distribution of child abuse images.

The social media platform, which has its European headquarters in Dublin, declined a request to appear before the Oireachtas media committee, despite the intervention from Taoiseach Micheál Martin, in a move described as “extremely disappointing and worrying”.