c/world · by tonytins@pawb.social · 208d

Elon Musk’s Twitter Office in Paris Raided by Cybercrime Unit

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-x-office-in-paris-raided-by-cybercrime-unit/

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 · 102 pts · 208d (15 replies)

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

alternatively, a paltry slap on the wrist

Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 66 pts · 208d (7 replies)

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

breadsmasher@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 208d

Sure. Id love to see it

thejml@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 207d

Don't threaten me with a good time!

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 207d (1 reply)

Can we get this worldwide

tehsillz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 207d

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

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 207d

Fuck. Yeah.

kutt@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 207d

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

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 204d

Good

Lasherz12@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 208d (1 reply)

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 pts · 207d

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 pts · 208d (1 reply)

Let me dream of guillotines just once

RhondaSandTits@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 207d

Luigi intensifies

tonytins@pawb.social · 21 pts · 208d (2 replies)

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 pts · 207d

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 pts · 207d

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

Everywhere.

tehsillz@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 208d (16 replies)

https://xcancel.com/elonmusk grabs popcorn

FrowingFostek@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 208d (2 replies)

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

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 208d

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 · 7 pts · 208d

That is musk's personal feed

IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 28 pts · 208d (5 replies)