The Daily Populous Wednesday February 4th, 2026 evening edition
Authored by firstpost.com and submitted by ChiefLeef22

After Elon Musk called the raid on X’s Paris office as a ‘political attack’, France said that investigating child sexual abuse material was not controversial. France is investigating X’s chatbot Grok for generating sexually explicit deepfakes and Musk has ramped up his anti-EU rhetoric.

After Elon Musk called the raid on X’s Paris office as a “political attack”, French foreign ministry on Wednesday said that investigating child sexual abuse material was not controversial.

France is investigating X's chatbot Grok in two cases: one related to generating sexually explicit deepfakes of real people without consent another related to its antisemitic tirade last year. In the case related to deepfakes, French authorities searched X’s Paris office on Tuesday and summoned Musk.

In response to Musk’s comment, the French foreign ministry said, “Investigating child sexual abuse material isn’t controversial. Turning it into political theater is manipulation. Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn’t fly in France.”

The ‘island’ was an apparent reference to the ‘Epstein island’ where sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is said to have run his sex slavery and paedophilia operation. Epstein was a longtime close friend and associate of US President Donald Trump — an ally of Musk.

Since December, scores of users —most of them females— have reported that Grok has published their photos after digitally removing their clothes through at the request of X users. As a result, Grok, X, and Musk have been condemned and scrutinised worldwide for letting users generate sexually explicit deepfakes of real persons without their consent. As France and the European Union (EU) have opened investigations into the matter, Musk has ramped up his anti-EU rhetoric.

Investigating child sexual abuse material isn’t controversial.

Turning it into political theater is manipulation.

Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn’t fly in France. https://t.co/A8WsRXjHuC — French Response (@FrenchResponse) February 3, 2026

Additionally, Musk has also called France “tyrant” and his allies have accused its authorities of pursuing “totalitarianism”.

Even as Musk and his allies have downplayed the deepfakes’ issue, an analysis by New York Times and Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) found that Grok posted more than 4.4 million images in just nine days and 44 per cent of them likely contained sexually explicit images of women.

Overall, CCDH found that around 65 per cent of these images contained sexually explicit images — of men, women, and children.

Musk and his far-right American allies have long pursued an anti-EU agenda. Previously, he has overtly supported anti-EU, far-right parties across Europe, such as AfD in Germany and Reform UK in the United Kingdom. Separately, the Trump has publicly supported far-right parties in Europe in their campaigns against centrists in their respective countries. It has so far overtly supported AfD in Germany, National Rally in France, and Law and Justice in Poland.

FishMcCool on February 4th, 2026 at 08:38 UTC »

> Maybe that logic flies on some island.

Ooooooooooof!

StrongFaithlessness5 on February 4th, 2026 at 08:38 UTC »

I don't know where else to post it, but right now TikTok has started hiding specific videos only from the American users.

https://i.imgur.com/MEhdCS1.jpeg

This is a famous Italian parody channel that makes videos regarding a lot of completely different topics, including a video about the recent you know which specific American special military corp and the Olympics situation.

At some point, one of his American followers took contact with him asking why he decided to remove the video, but the point is that... the owner of the TikTok channel never did it. The video has been silently hidden only from the American users without any kind of notification. The owner would've never noticed it if it wasn't for that follower.

As you already know, since 22 January 2026, American companies own 80% of the platform, which means that they can decide on their own how to control the platform just like Musk can manage X.

This was a funny and harmless video, but it really makes you wonder how many videos have been hidden so far. Are we really going to the same direction of China that is currently hiding news, pictures and videos containing specific words?

AtletMedSkaegg on February 4th, 2026 at 08:38 UTC »

"Maybe that logic flies on some island."

shots fired.