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.

    • tempest@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      2 hours ago

      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.

      • alter@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        2 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
          6·
          1 hour 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
            3·
            1 hour 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

  • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    54·
    5 hours ago

    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

    • baguette@piefed.socialEnglish
      13·
      5 hours ago

      Especially since mastodon is accessible for anyone, whether they have a mastodon account or not.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 hours ago

      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”.