French prosecutors searched the offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Tuesday as part of a preliminary investigation into a range of alleged offences, including spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes.
The investigation was opened in January last year by the prosecutors’ cybercrime unit, the Paris prosecutors’ office said in a statement. It is looking into alleged “complicity” in possession and spreading of pornographic images of minors, sexually explicit deepfakes, denial of crimes against humanity and manipulation of an automated data processing system as part of an organized group, among other charges.
In addition, prosecutors filed a request for “voluntary interviews” of Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X from 2023 to 2025, scheduled for April 20. Employees of the platform X have also been summoned that same week in April to be heard as witnesses, the statement said.
steeples fingers Good… good…
I briefly misread your comment as ‘staples fingers’ and agreed that I’d do it too if results were guaranteed.
Rivets fingers: Ouch, my fucking fingers!
US alisnt going to do shit. Glad someone is doing something.
For any french reading this, what are the chances elon musk will actually face any consequences as an outcome of this?
All they can do is levy fines and tell their ISPs to block Twitter.
I think even if they tell their ISPs to block twitter, it will be a huge step.
True, but given the population of France, all it would do it hurt Musk’s ego.
Although after typing that out, I realized that’s an actual punishment for him.
I’ll sharpen the guillotine. Who will bring the baguettes, and who volunteers to get the celebration wine?
Oh no how unfortunate.
