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  1. From the article:

    The search was carried out by the prosecutor’s cybercrime unit, in partnership with French police’s own cybercrime unit and Europol, the office said on X.

    A voluntary summons was issued for Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino to appear and answer questions about the platform’s adherence to French law.

    The prosecutor’s office said it was investigation potential criminal offences including complicity in the possession and distribution of „child pornography images,“ the violation of personal rights through the generation of „sexual deepfakes,“ the denial of „crimes against humanity,“ and the alleged fraudulent extraction of data from an automated processing system, as part of an organized gang.

    „The voluntary interviews with the managers should enable them to explain their position on the facts and, where applicable, the compliance measures envisaged,“ the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

  2. Emotional_Edge7544 on

    This is what happens when “move fast and break things” meets a government that actually writes tickets.

    The wild part is people acting shocked that a country would enforce its own laws on a company operating inside it. The era of platforms pretending they’re placeless is basically over.

  3. Who could have expected child pornography images on a website run by a guy who asked Epstein “what day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”

  4. Blank_Canvas21 on

    They want him to appear on 4/20 too. I’m sure Elon is going to be pleased they’re ruining his “totally cool” holiday.

  5. ClusterFoxtrot on

    I remember post-911 we were bullying France for some reason. Why is lost to me, but the end result was Freedom fries.

    In retrospect, France has a better concept of Freedom than we do. Maybe it’s the privilege of never having been born to a country without a monarchy.

  6. Fuzzy_Swordfish4521 on

    Let’s hope they arrest him. I would love to see how well he does in front of a jury.

  7. Please lock him up until america figures it’s shit out. We’re going through a lot right now.

  8. The inclusion of Europol is a spicy boulette. Here’s hope the investigation is picked up elsewhere.

  9. Specialist-Clock-914 on

    Good thing SpaceX just bought xAI lol. Damn I can’t even imagine how pissed people who own SpaceX stock are. The only saving grace of SpaceX was that it wasn’t a part of his failing businesses. He just bought up all his failing businesses into it.

  10. Moon_Rose_Violet on

    Wondering whether the offenses they’re investigating carry potential penalties equal to a percentage of X’s global revenues (as many EU laws do). And if so, if that penalty would be calculated based on revenues after the X/XAi/SpaceX merger because if so that’s (i) a lot of money and (ii) a great cautionary tale about not welding the revenge porn machine to a legitimate business that has billions in government contracts!

  11. Cyanopicacooki on

    >A voluntary summons was issued for Musk

    Like that’s going to work.

  12. It should not be a surprise to anyone that a man who has repeatedly accused random people of being pedophiles turns out to be one himself.

    Its a story as old as time, hence the story of the lady who doth protested too much

  13. MercantileReptile on

    Got my hopes up until

    >A **voluntary** summons was issued for Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino to appear and answer questions about the platform’s adherence to French law.

    Why even bother?

  14. Strange-Effort1305 on

    Elon is a pedophile who manufactures child porn. His daddy was rich so in America he is above the law. Let’s see if that works in France too.

  15. XaltotunTheUndead on

    All modern economies, from Australia to New Zealand, should enforce the full extent of their laws and crash down hard on these oligarchs‘ companies. Enough is enough.

  16. Question_It_All_3000 on

    Thank you France! Since American politicians are so inept and/or think they can get away with everything, I would love to see other countries come prosecute the obvious crimes.

    I’d love for America to wake up and take care of its own shit more, but I’ll take what I can get.

  17. tapasmonkey on

    Basically Musk now can’t travel to Europe and/or any country that has an extradition treaty with France.

    Could not have happened to a more deserving person!

  18. ChaotiCrayon on

    I’m relatively sure, that members of the EU already were looking for reasons to get X out of the perimeter, since they are aware of how toxic it is to their fragile democracy which *needs* an (correctly) informed public to function. Tiktok as well, but they havent given them a good facade to do it. Obviously, telling the population that they will ban these services outright would ensure a lengthy debate about censorship, so they cant do that.

    i am all on board for that, get Meta out as well while you are on it. the less media illiterate boomerpoliticians have the possibility to consume AI-news, the better. I dont really think, Tech-Giants influencing the opinion of the public in foreign states was a step towards „free speech“ to begin with.

  19. Natural-Contract-231 on

    The French making the USA look like scuzzy capitalist bootlickers.  Did not have that on my 2026 bingo card.  

  20. Suspicious_Brief_235 on

    I hope they will speak French to him and make him wear a headset to get the questions translated. Don’t speak English to him, pretend you don’t speak English and make him have everything translated for the sake of it. Horrible human being, don’t accommodate to him no matter what

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