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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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[–] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 2 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

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

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 54 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

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

alternatively, a paltry slap on the wrist

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 25 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 37 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 28 points 4 hours ago

Sure. Id love to see it

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 21 points 4 hours ago

Let me dream of guillotines just once

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 8 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] tehsillz@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours ago (7 children)
[–] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours 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 2 points 1 hour 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 2 points 2 hours ago

That is musk's personal feed

[–] IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 18 points 4 hours 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 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Drugs don’t make you that way

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 hours ago

I used to live on ketamine and dxm

[–] prex@aussie.zone 7 points 4 hours ago

Not drugs, electricity.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 5 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 4 points 3 hours ago
[–] elvith@feddit.org 9 points 4 hours ago

Oh gosh, what did I just witness?!

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] lemonySplit@lemmy.ca 2 points 31 minutes ago

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

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Lol. I wonder if this will come to anything.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 hours ago

Him? With all that money. You're dreaming.