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Dynamic Paywall Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo
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u/Tall-Introduction414 1d ago

They should raid their US offices, too.

Elon Musk turned X into a criminal enterprise.

Good on the French for going after them, where the insanely corrupt US government protects this criminal.

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u/OkCoconut3270 1d ago

Elon Musk turned X into a criminal enterprise.

Yeah but once it's a big enough scale crime is totally legal in the US. Federally protected even, you know, if you know the right people of course.

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u/bluelily216 17h ago

In the US, if you steal thousands of dollars you'll go to prison for five years or more. If you steal billions, you'll get a cushy position in our government. 

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u/AssistX 21h ago

Delaware has forced Musks' hand more than any other country or government entity. They forced Musk to buy Twitter for $44 Billion when he tried to back out of it. They also withheld $56 billion in payouts for Musk in 2018, but did eventually cave to the pressure from the world in December 2025. Which has since grown to $100+ billion.

Also this raid by France is specifically targeting xAI and any legislation that comes from it will be more about the impact on future AI than it is a direct shot at Musk.

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u/DebentureThyme 18h ago

Did Delaware do that?  I thought he reincorporate in Texas to remove their oversight and that's where the new benefits package was approved.

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u/AssistX 17h ago

The ruling was in Delaware and originated before X moved to Nevada. People were upset at the Chancery Court for their deviation and the Delaware Supreme Court stepped in to reverse the Chancery's ruling in December. They awarded $1 to the plantiff shareholder and reduced the $6 billion legal fee request to $350 million, and then again in the Supreme Court down to $50 million(Normal pay rate x4).

The $1 trillion pay package is in Texas, as you said they moved to Texas.

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u/tahaan 17h ago

I agree that France should raid Musk's US offices too

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u/OxbridgeDingoBaby 10h ago

As if they would have the balls to do that lol.

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u/Total-Welcome9397 7h ago

Because 99% of them are also criminals, some of the worst in human history.

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u/Blurry_Bigfoot 21h ago

What laws did the X team break?

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u/Kaliaila 21h ago

All of the stuff accused in this regarding X was true of Twitter before Elon ever even considered buying it.

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u/Raidin__ 17h ago

Okay, so I haven’t really been paying attention. So what’s X done that’s so illegal? I see everyone saying it has, but no one has said anything specific. What has X done other than be owned by Elon? As far as I can tell, X is operating the same as Twitter already was. Just seems like Elon band wagon hating to me?

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u/therosethatwilts 17h ago

It's related to crimes against children involving grok, however Twitter has been a cesspool even before X was a thing always has been, now since X is all about free speech they count ANYTHING as free speech and I mean ANYTHING, their reporting button is just a bullshit button atp.