Here are several particularly egregious examples:
Gaël Duval and Murena participated in these attacks. They even spread harassment content towards our team and shared it with sites attacking us.
/e/ and Murena are based in France. They've been pushing false narratives about GrapheneOS falsely claiming it isn't usable by regular people and doesn't benefit them for years. Duval has been making the ludicrous claim GrapheneOS is only useful to criminals and spies for years.
/e/ and Murena aren't on the same side as GrapheneOS. They're charlatans selling devices with poor privacy and atrocious security to earn money. They've spent years trying to undermine a legitimate privacy project and heavily use the same talking points as police state advocates.
Their marketing heavily focuses on avoiding Google and gives the impression they believe privacy means avoiding one company. Meanwhile, they add a bunch of Google services not present in the Android Open Source Project and give extensive privileged access to Google apps/services.
/e/ and Murena have their own privacy invasive behavior in their apps and services. One particularly egregious example is their supposedly private speech-to-text service sending user data to OpenAI without consent instead of doing most locally like Apple:
https://community.e.foundation/t/voice-to-text-feature-using-open-ai/70509
/e/ and Murena have repeatedly claimed GrapheneOS is for drug dealers, pedophiles, terrorists and spies. /e/ and Murena are anti-privacy. They're heavily profiting from marketing products as private but don't believe in it. /e/ is an authoritarian-aligned fake privacy project.
France is the most anti-encryption, anti-privacy and anti-security country in the EU. They've been doing a gradual crackdown on open source privacy projects including GrapheneOS and Signal with escalating smears and threats. /e/ and Murena are on the side of the police state.
That interview is not Gaël Duval misspeaking but rather he's expressing views we've seen him communicate in written form many times before. He has repeatedly misled people about what GrapheneOS provides and claimed it's only useful to criminals. He supported those media attacks.
Gaël Duval has repeatedly spread harassment content targeting our team with fabricated stories and bullying. Perhaps all of this is because he wants to maximize profits for Murena, but how is he going to achieve that by claiming serious privacy and security is for pedophiles?
Here's a paywall bypass for the 2 paywalled articles above:
These are among the most egregious cases of France's corporate and state media presenting highly inaccurate state smearing of GrapheneOS as fact but there's much more.
@GrapheneOS
In a world of corporate and state over reach, anyone wanting privacy is the enemy.
@GrapheneOS And this thing is old, for example, back when the first versions of Firefox were released, France had demanded versions of Firefox with significantly reduced security to allow law enforcement agencies to take remote control of it. I didn’t know about it at the time; I was too young, but I know it happened.
During the gradual transition to encrypting the web, France was reluctant and initially wanted to limit encryption to states websites and banks.
Surveillance by the French government has taken an even more aggressive turn since 2015, following the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
The GDPR has so far proven ineffective, and it is mainly due to the censorship and decisions of the Constitutional Council and the Court of Justice of the European Union that the French government is prevented from going further than it would like, but every year, it tries to circumvent these decisions.
Apr 6, 2026, 1:40 PM30(-ish) toots yesterday and today on /e/. Have you considered increasing the character limit per toot? Perhaps one longer toot (let's say, 1500 characters? 3000?) could summarise all your views on this topic?
@jon_bon Why doesn't Mastodon provide configuration for character limit through the configuration file? If it provided it, we would increase the limit to a much larger value. Since it doesn't, we're not currently doing it. We don't really want to have to patch each release of Mastodon and make sure we don't miss any new places they reference the hard-wired value of 500. We could do that but we prefer using the unmodified package which is why we haven't done it yet.
@GrapheneOS Privacy isn't a crime
Apr 5, 2026, 10:29 PM@codimp je n'ai trouvé aucune source à ce sujet, ça a été répété par le gars de GOS, mais comme d'hab dans ses attaques gratuites contre le reste du monde (Lineage, MicroG, Murena, F-Droid, etc.) il faut le croire sur parole, et si tu insiste il dis que tu fait partie d'une cabale qui le harcèle :-/
@bohwaz
C'est dans la vidéo en tête de fil
@GrapheneOS Can't wait for your Motorola partnership to further legitimize GrapheneOS.
Apr 5, 2026, 9:39 PM@GrapheneOS Le Parisien :
"Ces engins jusqu’à présent inviolés, qui protègent les communications et qui ne partagent pas les données sur les serveurs, sont un nouveau défi que le parquet cyber entend bientôt relever."
C'est exactement pareil avec Signal sur Android si on n'utilise pas le cloud, ils nous prennent pour des imbéciles.
@davep @GrapheneOS Hahaha, furthermore, this false claim makes no sense: GrapheneOS does not route user communications through these servers; GrapheneOS is not a company and does not offer services such as messaging or email etc.