The Paris prosecutor says its cyber-crime unit is conducting a search of X's offices.

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.

  • alter@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    you’re not wrong all of the other mainstream stuff isn’t much better.

    i’m kinda unsure if banning it for kids will actually do much since 1) a lot of them will just bypass the age checks 2) if they grow up to be adults reading astroturfed garbage 24/7 what’s gonna change? i guess maybe attention spans might be better?? but like if govts arent even willing to actually just put up the pretense of straight up banning the blatantly astroturfed hate speech csam machine… it’s looking grim

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Back in my day we knew to never trust the internet and never click random links.

      No idea what happened.

      • alter@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        the trillion dollar propaganda machine happened :(

        it’s kinda ironic how every conspiracy theory about social media mind control was basically true, they were just wrong about who was pulling the reins lol might’ve been an intentional psyop