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

7 months ago by Tony Bark to c/world

Musk’s social media platform has ruffled the feathers of French authorities.

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 102 points 7 months ago

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

alternatively, a paltry slap on the wrist

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Archangel1313 66 points 7 months ago

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

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breadsmasher 43 points 7 months ago

Sure. Id love to see it

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thejml 14 points 7 months ago

Don't threaten me with a good time!

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Witchfire 11 points 7 months ago

Can we get this worldwide

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tehsillz 3 points 7 months ago

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

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a_non_monotonic_function 9 points 7 months ago

Fuck. Yeah.

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kutt 4 points 7 months ago

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

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FreshParsnip 1 point 6 months ago

Good

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Lasherz12 57 points 7 months 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.

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Etterra 6 points 7 months ago

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

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DaddleDew 32 points 7 months ago

Let me dream of guillotines just once

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RhondaSandTits 3 points 7 months ago

Luigi intensifies

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tonytins 21 points 7 months 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.

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qarbone 2 points 7 months 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.

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anomnom 2 points 7 months ago

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

Everywhere.

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tehsillz 35 points 7 months ago path: 0 21936423, hotness: undefined, score: 35, children: 16
FrowingFostek 29 points 7 months ago

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

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P00ptart 10 points 7 months ago

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

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UnspecificGravity 7 points 7 months ago

That is musk's personal feed

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IntrovertTurtle 28 points 7 months ago

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

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Marshezezz 21 points 7 months ago
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thorhop 6 points 7 months ago

Have you tried ketamine?

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Marshezezz 12 points 7 months ago
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FrowingFostek 4 points 7 months ago

Are you offering?

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prex 8 points 7 months ago

Not drugs, electricity.

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samus12345 12 points 7 months ago

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sobchak 4 points 7 months ago

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

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samus12345 2 points 7 months ago

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

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elvith 11 points 7 months ago

Oh gosh, what did I just witness?!

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Wildmimic 10 points 7 months ago

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

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Triumph 4 points 7 months ago

Wow

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GreenBeanMachine 4 points 7 months ago
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northendtrooper 22 points 7 months ago

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

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lemonySplit 11 points 7 months ago

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

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nomy 4 points 7 months ago

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

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FreshParsnip 1 point 6 months ago

Why does everyone assume everyone online is American?

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TheFrirish 19 points 7 months ago

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

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wedge 18 points 7 months ago

I love this for musk

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myfunnyaccountname 8 points 7 months ago

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

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Endymion_Mallorn 6 points 7 months ago

Lol. I wonder if this will come to anything.

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SeeMarkFly 7 points 7 months ago

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

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FreshParsnip 2 points 6 months ago

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

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dandylion 2 points 7 months ago
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lambalicious 3 points 7 months ago

$10 (CLP) that this will end in a nothingburger in three weeks.

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UltraMagnus0001 2 points 7 months ago

We'll see if he shows up or if there will be any consequences after someone is paid off.

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