French Police Raid Elon Musk "X" HQ

[Pototan]

Tue 3 Feb 2026 06.42 EST

Prosecutors have raided the French headquarters of Elon Musk’s social media platform X and summoned the tech billionaire and the company’s former chief executive for questioning as part of an investigation into alleged cybercrime.

“A search is under way by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office, the national police cyber unit and Europol,” the Paris prosecutors’ office said in a post on X on Tuesday, adding that it would no longer be publishing on the network.

It added in a statement that Musk and Linda Yaccarino had been summoned for voluntary questioning “in their capacity as de facto and de jure managers of the X platform at the time of the events”. Yaccarino resigned as CEO of X in July last year.

The prosecutor’s office said it was examining “alleged complicity” in offences related to the platform, including the spreading of child abuse images and sexually explicit deepfakes, the denial of crimes against humanity and manipulation

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/03/french-headquarters-elon-musk-x-raided-paris-cybercrime-unit

[Pototan]

1. Fuck Musk

[Chasstev365]

2. I hope they help bring down this evil batman villian.

[GoCubsGo]

3. People forget that X-crement is subject to foreign laws, too.

I hope Europol nails the bastard to the wall. Can't wait to see how his current squeeze, Mrs. Stephen Miller, is involved...

His refusal to do anything about the AI child porn on his shitty platform is all starting to make sense...

[malaise]

5. THIS

Rec

[Dr. T]

14. X-crement. Good one.

The Repuglican-controlled US federal government, under the influence of a pedophile, sure as hell aren't going to investigate.

[LymphocyteLover]

4. awesome!

[Scrivener7]

6. Every country should be doing this. Which makes me sad for my country because I know there's no way we will.

[area51]

7. +1

At least France tries to take care of its people, but of course the US govt does not.

[stollen]

10. The US lacks consequence for the rich

The poor get the death penalty….quite a difference. I first noticed that with Gerald Ford’s pardon of Nixon.

[Javaman]

8. and that my friends is what a democracy looks like.

instead of our cartoon one.

[orangecrush]

18. Got that right

[ms liberty]

20. You sure got that right.

Sometimes you have to complete the lyric to move on!

[orangecrush]

21. ...

[oasis]

9. "Don't worry about me Gettys, I'm Charles Foster

Kane”.

[littlemissmartypants]

24. Don't worry about me...

...I'm no cheap, crooked politician, trying to save himself from the consequences of his crimes. [louder] Gettys. I'm going to send you to Sing Sing. Sing Sing Gettys. Sing Sing."

~From Citizen Kane by Orson Wells

Not that I want the stock market to crash but... I wonder if that wouldn't cut some of these oligarch bastards down to size. Isn't eloon's wealth primarily in shares?

At any rate, they probably all need to be sent to Sing Sing. Maybe some of them would turn on each other, rat out the rest and give us something like a control/ alt/ delete reset. And maybe a little feeling of power over pain.

[FakeNoose]

11. K & R Consequences!

[durablend]

12. You just know he was probably storing that generated CSAM

[alittlelark]

13. Vive La France !!

[littlemissmartypants]

25. Hear! Hear!

🇫🇷 🇺🇸 🇫🇷

[Ilsa]

15. This news has made my day! nt

[orangecrush]

16. YES

[bronxiteforever]

17. Kick and recommend.

[orangecrush]

19. "Cybercrime" as in ELECTION TAMPERING????

[yellow dahlia]

27. A story to pay attention to, indeed.

[NJCher]

22. How a real government operates

Instead of what we have, which is a structure to funnel middle class tax dollars to the rich.

[dlk]

23. If only enough Americans cared enough about prosecuting child porn and trafficking

Epstein and his cohorts would have been behind bars ages ago.

[Evolve Dammit]

33. Thanks Acosta. What happened to that original indictment and NY Grand Jury materials?

[dlk]

34. No doubt they were "lost"

The corruption is much more pervasive than most of us could have ever believed.

[CanonRay]

26. The French don't screw around.

I hope Musk is in deep shit.

[yellow dahlia]

28. Musk - Tu te merde!

[twodogsbarking]

29. I just may have french toast for lunch, or maybe french fries, with ketchup on the wall.

[Torchlight]

30. Guessing the " J'adore ma Tesla" t-shirts will be on the discount rack soon

Vive la Renault 5E!

[progressoid]

31. k/r

[quakerboy]

32. If we all stopped using Twitter, there would be an incremental improvement in the world

Tiny, but not nothing.

[BaronChocula]

35. Did they find our Social Security info in the raid?

Just asking.