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Musk uses slurs to mock French prosecutors investigating X

South China Morning Post · · 179 words · By Agence France-Presse
Elon Musk's public conduct Legal conflict between X and French authorities
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5 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“France opened an inquiry in January 2025 into allegations that X, formerly known as Twitter, was used to interfere in French politics.”
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Multiple independent sources confirm that France opened an investigation into X in early 2025 regarding the manipulation of algorithms to interfere in French politics.
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web search NEUTRAL — The director of X in France, Laurent Buanec, said on January 22 that the algorithm was "built in a way to avoid offering you hateful content". He said X has "strict, clear and public rules to protect …
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/foreign-int…
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web search NEUTRAL — France opened an investigation into X in early 2025, which focused on the manipulation of algorithms to influence and interfere in French politics as well as allegations that the AI system, Grok, gene…
https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/french-prosecutors-escalate…
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web search NEUTRAL — France’s VIGINUM agency, which tracks foreign disinformation campaigns, said it had detected inauthentic-looking websites and social media accounts with “foreign technical markers” that had been targe…
https://www.euractiv.com/news/france-suspects-foreign-interf…
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“The investigation has since widened to cover allegations of Holocaust denial, distribution of sexual deepfakes and most recently possible complicity in the distribution of images of child sexual abuse.”
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Three independent sources confirm the investigation expanded to include Holocaust denial (crimes against humanity), sexual deepfakes, and child sexual abuse material.
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web search NEUTRAL — The French investigation focuses on several suspected criminal offences, including complicity in possessing child sexual abuse material and denial of crimes against humanity.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/20/french-pr…
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web search NEUTRAL — PARIS — French prosecutors raided the offices of social media platform X on Tuesday as part of a preliminary investigation into allegations including spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes.…
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/03/g-s1-108490/paris-x-raid-inve…
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web search NEUTRAL — Prosecutors said they are investigating possible complicity in the creation and distribution of child sexual abuse material, the defamation of individuals through sexually explicit deepfakes, and cont…
https://dailycaller.com/2026/02/03/french-police-raid-musks-…
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“Responding to a post on the latest phase of the inquiry, Musk wrote in French on Friday: “They’re faker than a chocolate euro and gayer than a flamingo in a neon tutu!””
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of unrelated search results (Joe Rogan, cage fight with Zuckerberg) and does not contain any record of the specific French quote mentioned.
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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Musk is a business magnet, entrepreneur and engineer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYjXbSJBN8
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web search NEUTRAL — Report this comment. It's far more plausible that this is just another planned PR stunt to make these language toys feel more legitimate before the bubble (implosion) sets the entire field back to win…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/arch-hoffman-6b69b412_hard-no…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mr Musk posted a message on his social media platform Twitter that he was "up for a cage fight" with Mr Zuckerberg. Mr Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta, then posted a…
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65981876
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“The SpaceX and Tesla tycoon, under investigation along with former X CEO Linda Yaccarino, recently failed to respond to a summons from the French judiciary for an informal interview.”
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Multiple sources confirm that both Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino were summoned for interviews by French authorities and that Musk failed to respond/snubbed the summons.
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web search NEUTRAL — Musk and the former CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino were summoned as part of an investigation, launched in January 2025, into allegations that X's algorithm was used to interfere in French politics.
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260421-elon-musk-ignores-fren…
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web search NEUTRAL — Musk and Linda Yaccarino, former head of X, have been summoned to the Paris Court of Justice. They added "the presence or absence (of the people summoned) is not an obstacle to continuing the investig…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk151nn7j3o
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web search NEUTRAL — Musk himself called the investigation "a political attack." After the raid, both Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino were summoned to "voluntary interviews" with French authorities.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/musk-snubs-french-autho…
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“He already labelled French magistrates “mentally r*****ed” in an earlier post in French, following a raid on X’s Paris office in mid-February.”
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While multiple sources confirm the raid on X's Paris office in February and Musk's negative reaction (calling it a 'political attack'), none of the provided evidence sources contain the specific slur mentioned in the claim.
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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Musk has hit back at a police raid on X's French offices and an investigation into accusations that his social media platform manipulates its algorithms and data feeds as well as concerns ...
https://deadline.com/2026/02/elon-musk-reponds-police-raid-f…
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web search NEUTRAL — French police have raided the Paris offices of X and summoned its owner, Elon Musk, to appear at a hearing, amid an ongoing investigation into the social media giant, the prosecution has said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/3/french-authorities-r…
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web search NEUTRAL — Prosecutors in Paris said they asked Elon Musk to appear for questioning after searching X's offices in as part of a probe into sexual deepfakes.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/france-paris-prosecutor…
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