Musk's X office in France raided by Paris prosecutor
Offices belonging to Elon Musk's social media platform, X, in France are being raided by the Paris prosecutor.
Its cyber-crime unit is conducting the searches, it said in a statement on X. Europol is assisting.
It added it was related to an investigation opened in January 2025 following complaints about X's algorithm and the content it recommended.
In its statement, the prosecutor's office said the operation formed part of efforts to ensure X complied with French laws. It said the probe, led by French cyber-crime police, was expanded in July 2025 after reports of sexually explicit deepfakes and holocaust denial content circulating on the platform.
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While it's slowly devolving into a cesspool al la 4chan it's largely just a symptom of modern social media.
I'm interested to see what the result is for the countries that are slowly banning underage use.
Back in my day we knew to never trust the internet and never click random links.
No idea what happened.
That time 4chan was taken down by hackers for a brief period and many of its users flooded and enshittified the rest of the internet convinced me we need to have containment chambers.
I'm still wondering why any of our government structure is using X or TikTok and not Mastodon, I mean the press will "FOR SURE" fetch the info there like they do with trump
Amen ! Government officials could even create and manage their own instance.
Especially since mastodon is accessible for anyone, whether they have a mastodon account or not.
It seems like most people are still clinging to the idea that wherever the biggest audience is is where you have to be. Same thing when Facebook facilitated genocide and people were like "yeah but how will I learn about events my friends are having without Facebook". Basically "nothing is more important than me not having to slightly change how I currently operate".
It’s also the algorithm that’s at work. Meta and X know how to give that dopamine hit.
Additional info : initially linked to two complaints about algorithm changes causing political misinformation and allowing holocaust denying comments, the raid is enlarged for allowing and promoting child sexualized contents.
https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2026/02/03/les-locaux-francais-de-x-perquisitionnes-dans-le-cadre-d-une-enquete-pour-cybercriminalite_6665203_4408996.html
Now please just shut the whole stupid thing down forever.
More!
I take it Musk is having a tantrum about it on Twitter?
Indeed he is. Had the misfortune of seeing some of it.