The French cybercrime police raided the Paris offices of X, and there’s enough schadenfreude to power the web – 23 top reactions

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In a world where billionaires face far too little consequence France is doing some good work here, this is good to see.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2…

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— Conor Curtis (@conorcurtis.bsky.social) February 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM

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French prosecutors 'Could've gone to a party , decided to feed X into a wood chipper instead'

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— Harvey Waywell (@wellway27.bsky.social) February 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM

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At least one country is going after that nazi piece of shit

— BLK (@raydaman.bsky.social) February 3, 2026 at 12:15 PM

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France is like “We don’t give a rat’s ass who you are or how rich you are. You best obey our laws or we are coming.” 🤷‍♂️

— thiswhatwedoinnow.bsky.social (@thiswhatwedoinnow.bsky.social) February 3, 2026 at 12:35 PM

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America won’t touch him, apparently, so glad France will and is.

— Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 (@politicshealth.bsky.social) February 3, 2026 at 12:13 PM

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Joyous news! 😊

Prosecutors have raided French headquarters of Elon Musk’s X & summoned the tech billionaire 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 & Europol”

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— Bremain in Spain (@bremaininspain.com) February 3, 2026 at 2:33 PM

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You love to see it

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— 🌟 Tommo 🌟 (@tommothecabbit.bsky.social) February 3, 2026 at 5:27 PM

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So how long until Musk goes on another tirade about how France needs to be saved or whatever bullshit he usually goes on when things don't go his way?

— Sorantheman (@sorantheman.bsky.social) February 3, 2026 at 1:48 PM

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The French are taking none of Musk’s bullshit.

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— Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) February 3, 2026 at 11:45 PM

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Seems like the FAFO. I hope Musk goes down for all the Epstein stuff and Grok CSAM. He won’t, but I can dream.

— thevariant (@thevariant25.bsky.social) February 3, 2026 at 11:43 AM

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Oh … so THIS is what it’s like to have a functioning government.

Must be nice.

— Aaron S Bell (@aaronsbell.bsky.social) February 3, 2026 at 9:44 PM

Shot – chaser!

UK privacy watchdog opens inquiry into X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes

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— The Guardian (@theguardian.com) February 3, 2026 at 12:41 PM

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A ‘not a misogynist’ man accused this woman of hypocrisy for complaining about those sexualised Grok deep fakes and the entirety of the internet responded as one

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