Paris cops raid offices of Elon Musk's X in child porn investigation

The offices of X, formerly known as Twitter, were raided this morning by police in Paris. French authorities haven't announced what they're looking for, but the officers are from a cyber-crime unit investigating "unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography," so it presumably concerns Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok generating CSAM and deepfake pornography of real people for users of the platform.

The BBC reports that X isn't saying anything yet about today's raid, but has described characterised the French investigation into CSAM as "an attack on free speech."

Among potential crimes it said it would investigate were complicity in possession or organised distribution of images of children of a pornographic nature, infringement of people's image rights with sexual deepfakes and fraudulent data extraction by an organised group.

Interesting how an apparent effort to normalize CSAM and nonconsensual sexual imagery (and to market it at consumers) is coming from the sort of people constantly having to explain why they are in the Epstein Files.

Previously: 'They're such NPCs' — Why Elon Musk thinks you're not real