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Elon Musk’s X offices in Paris have been raided by French authorities who have now summoned him to appear for questioning amid a probe into his social media platform.

Cybercrime officers carried out Tuesday’s raid with assistance from Europol, ratcheting up a year-long investigation into the platform’s algorithm and the content being recommended to users.

The social media platform has been under investigation since January 2025, though it has expanded since then following allegations of Holocaust denial and sexually explicit deepfakes linked to Grok, X’s AI chatbot. The Paris prosecutor’s office has now asked Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino to appear at a hearing in April.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 101 points 1 month ago (4 children)

odds on muski just refusing, and zero consequences come from this.

alternatively, a paltry slap on the wrist

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 65 points 1 month ago (6 children)

If he doesn't deal with this, Twitter will end up getting banned in France.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago

Sure. Id love to see it

[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

Don't threaten me with a good time!

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] tehsillz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Yes please. Theres better alternatives and even better ones could be made.

[–] kutt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Yes yes yes that’d be perfect, at least EU-wide

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't confuse US consequences for EU consequences. It's pretty well accepted that Americans receive more protections from companies as a result of EU legal cases than our own FTC and FCC.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 1 month ago

I never believe these kinds of people suffer actual consequences until it's actually happened and they run out of appeals. Or lifespan.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Let me dream of guillotines just once

[–] RhondaSandTits@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

Luigi intensifies

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Given the EU is pulling as much of their digital assets off of US severs, they may not take too kindly to Twitter this time around. Especially since Elon was found in the Epstein files and is budds with Trump.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

The second half makes it seem like there aren't rich people in France. The only reason I'll believe we don't see more non-American/British/Israeli oligarchs in the Epstein files is because they had other islands closer to home.

Unless their islands are backed by a different or opposing power that doesn't mind cutting Epstein system loose for public cred, I don't expect the wealthy and politicians to do much.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

You’d think the kiddie porn generating ai would be enough to ban it and sanction Musk.

Everywhere.

[–] tehsillz@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (7 children)
[–] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's so crazy, having not been on the platform for a while, how many bots are just spewing garbage.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

There were a lot of bots and toxicity long before he took over. I can't imagine what it's like now.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

That is musk's personal feed

[–] IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Holy fucking hell. I've never seen a more deranged list of objective falsehoods. How many different drugs are these people on?

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Drugs don’t make you that way

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago

I used to live on ketamine and dxm

[–] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Are you offering?

[–] prex@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago

Not drugs, electricity.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] sobchak@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If this isn't fake, he switched to voting Republican when they started the Southern Strategy

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

It's not, he's a Republican Congressman.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 10 points 1 month ago

The amount of propaganda is unreal. If the roles were reversed, the USA had banned Xitter for foreign interference long ago.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago

Oh gosh, what did I just witness?!

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago
[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Does he just spend all day on twitter? What a fucking deranged feed

[–] northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I foresee elon's buddy in crime to put tariffs on France in retaliation.

[–] lemonySplit@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You mean more tariffs on Americans? Nobody in France is paying shit. Its you guys that pay the tariffs

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

I believe that commenter is in Canada so they're not either.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Why does everyone assume everyone online is American?

[–] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Good now burn it down please and ban X in France. Thank you.

[–] wedge@multiverse.soulism.net 18 points 1 month ago

I love this for musk

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 weeks ago

Now do raids, issue warrants for and arrest people from the Epstein files.

Lol. I wonder if this will come to anything.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Arrest him. I don't care on what grounds.