X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok
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Elon Musk's X and Grok platforms are facing increased scrutiny from authorities on both sides of the channel.

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.

    • the_trash_man@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      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.

    • tempest@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      7 days 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.

  • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    43·
    7 days 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

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      7 days 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”.