COMPLICIT
Musk and fascist normalizer Linda Yaccarino are being investigated by French prosecutors for complicity in possessing and distributing child sexual abuse images and illegally collecting personal data
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I found it profoundly disturbing that Linda Yaccarino was brought in to normalize the Nazi soup that Twitter became under Elon Musk’s ownership.
As the CEO of X, Yaccarino was paid $6 million annually as an accessory to an influence operation to throw the 2024 election to Trump — influence operations are not journalism and therefore not covered under the First Amendment.
In the alternate reality she inhabited, she made videos about free speech, attempts to whitewash the fact that she and Musk had brought all the Nazis and Russian subcontractors back on the platform.
But justice keeps on happening.
French prosecutors are now seeking charges against Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino and his social platform X for child sexual abuse images on the platform, deepfakes, disinformation and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by the platform’s artificial intelligence system, Grok.
The Paris public prosecutor’s office said Wednesday it officially opened an investigation into X on the following charges:
complicity in possessing and distributing child sexual abuse images
unlawfully collecting personal data
disseminating non-consensual images or other content
and denial of crimes against humanity
As I reported in April, Musk and Linda Yaccarino — the former CEO of X — were summoned to Paris for “voluntary interviews” to discuss the allegations and both were no shows.
At the time, the French authorities said this wouldn’t stop the investigation.
In February, X’s French offices were searched as part of an investigation that began in January 2025 by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office.
According to France 24:
“French authorities opened their investigation after reports from a French lawmaker alleging that biased algorithms on X likely distorted the functioning of an automated data processing system. It expanded after the AI system, Grok, generated posts that allegedly denied the Holocaust, a crime in France, and spread sexually explicit deepfakes.
“It’s looking into alleged “complicity” in possessing and spreading sexual abuse images of minors, sexually explicit deepfakes, denial of crimes against humanity and manipulation of an automated data processing system as part of an organized group, among other charges. Grok, which was built by xAI and is available through X, sparked global outrage this year after it pumped out a torrent of sexualized nonconsensual deepfake images in response to requests from X users.
“Grok also wrote in a widely shared post in French that gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp were designed for “disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus” rather than for mass murder — language long associated with Holocaust denial.”
The Showdown
In March, the Paris prosecutor’s office alerted the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission, “that the controversy surrounding sexually explicit deepfakes generated by Grok may have been deliberately orchestrated to artificially boost the value of the companies X and xAI — potentially constituting criminal offenses.”
Musk and Yaccarino, by not showing up for the interviews, are likely betting on cover from the White House, but the French — beginning with the arrest of Telegram’s Pavel Durov — are making it clear that platform owners do not have total immunity from the crimes committed on their sites.
During the X office raid in February, cybercrime investigators seized information on how the X algorithm is manipulated specially on French soil. They are investigating whether the platform’s “For You” feed amplifies disinformation during specific political cycles.
The DOJ reportedly sent a letter to Paris prosecutors accusing the investigation of being politically charged and attempting to “wrongfully regulate” a US company.
A clear line is emerging between French law and American lawlessness.
Now that the French public prosecutor is requesting judges place X.AI Holdings Corp, X Corp and xAI, Musk and Yaccarino under formal investigation, the next phase won’t be voluntary.
If they fail to appear, judges could issue a warrant.
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