Targeted by judicial information in France concerning possible excesses of X, Elon Musk insulted French magistrates on his social network on Friday, with comments of a homophobic nature in particular. “They are faker than a chocolate euro and more queer than a pink flamingo in a fluorescent tutu!”, wrote, in French, the richest man in the world on X. He was responding to a message evoking this new stage in the legal investigation in France.
In the wake investigations opened in January 2025an investigating judge is now responsible in France for investigating possible complicity in the distribution of child pornography images on the social network
“They are mentally retarded”
Musk, like the former general director of X, Linda Yaccarino, are targeted in their capacity as de facto and legal managers of the X platform at the material time. “They are mentally retarded,” Musk had already launched, in the language of Molière, on his social network, about French magistrates, after a search in mid-February in the Parisian premises of X.
The investigation, which is in charge of the national cyber unit of the gendarmerie, “focuses on possible violations by platform In particular, possible complicity in the dissemination of child pornography images and the use of X’s artificial intelligence model, Grok, for the creation of “deepfakes”, that is to say ultra-realistic montages of a sexual nature, without the consent of the victims.
The social network denounced during the search an “abusive judicial act” based “on political motivations” and refuted any offense. He assured that he would “not allow himself to be intimidated”.
