US EditionFrance Opens Criminal Probe Into X Over Alleged Algorithm Manipulation
ÎLE-DE-FRANCE, FRANCE, JUL 10 – The probe examines if X manipulated algorithms to promote extremist content and interfere in elections, with 1.5 million users reportedly affected, officials said.
- On July 11, 2025, the Paris public prosecutor intensified the investigation concerning claims of biased behavior within the algorithms of Elon Musk's social media platform X.
- This probe followed two complaints filed on January 12, 2025, which raised concerns about the algorithm being used to facilitate foreign interference.
- Reports emerged that a parliament member and a senior cybersecurity official in government raised concerns that significant changes to X's algorithm were amplifying hateful political content and distorting democratic discussions in France.
- On January 22, 2025, Laurent Buanec, X's director for France, emphasized that the platform enforces well-defined and transparent policies designed to shield users from hateful content and to combat the spread of misinformation.
- The investigation highlights serious concerns for democratic integrity and centers on suspicions regarding manipulation of automated systems associated with X's algorithm since Elon Musk took ownership in 2022.
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As the public debate migrates on social networks, it is no longer the institutions that arbitrate ideas, but the lines of code. In Brussels, Paris and Berlin, the warning signals accumulate: oriented moderation, political content propelled or buried, opaque rules. The whole, orchestrated by Musk, who directs both rockets, an electric car... and now, a part of our democracies?
France Launches Criminal investigation Into X - Patriot Newsfeed
French authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the social media platform X and its owner, Elon Musk, over allegations that the platform has contributed to “creating bias in France’s democratic debate.” The move follows mounting concerns over antisemitic content generated by Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Musk’s artificial intelligence firm, xAi. According to French media outlet Libération, the controversy erupted after Grok re…
France Expands Criminal Investigation Into Elon Musk’s X
A top French prosecutor has expanded a criminal investigation into Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, over allegations that the company’s algorithms led to “foreign interference.” In a statement released on July 11, Magistrate Laure Beccuau with the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office wrote that it referred an earlier investigation to the General Directorate of the National Gendarmerie, a French police force, in the past week to enhance an inves…
France waging 'crusade' against free speech and tech progress -...
Criminal probes against tech giants will only damage the French economy, Pavel Durov has said. France has embarked on a "crusade" against free speech and progress itself, Telegram founder Pavel Durov said on Friday after Paris launched a probe against the social media platform X. The French authorities should talk to tech companies instead of prosecuting them, the entrepreneur believes. The actions of the "French bureaucrats" will only "scare of…
The French justice invests closely in the functioning of the social network X, held by Elon Musk. On 9 July, the Paris Park opened a survey, entrusted to the National Agenda, on suspicion that the platform algorithms would have been deliberately modified to facilitate foreign energy in the country's democratic life, reports Le Figaro.
[Yomiuri Shimbun] In relation to the House of Councillors election (voting on the 20th), 90% of the background information added by other users to information of unknown authenticity posted on X (formerly Twitter) has not been made public, according to an analysis by Hiroyuki Fujishiro, professor of social media at Hosei University, and the Yomiuri Shimbun.
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