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France launches criminal investigation into Musk’s X over algorithm manipulation

July 11, 2025
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France launches criminal investigation into Musk’s X over algorithm manipulation
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PARIS — French prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into X over allegations that the company owned by billionaire Elon Musk manipulated its algorithms for the purposes of “foreign interference.”

Magistrate Laure Beccuau said in a statement Friday that prosecutors had launched the probe on Wednesday and were looking into whether the social media giant broke French law by altering its algorithms and fraudulently extracting data from users.

The criminal investigation comes on the heels of an inquiry launched in January, and is based on complaints from a lawmaker and an unnamed senior civil servant, Beccuau said.

A complaint that sparked the initial January inquiry accused X of spreading “an enormous amount of hateful, racist, anti-LGBT+ and homophobic political content, which aims to skew the democratic debate in France.”

POLITICO has reached out to X for comment.

The investigation lands as X is increasingly under fire from regulators in Paris and Brussels.

Two French parliamentarians referred the platform to France’s digital regulator Arcom on Thursday following anti-Semitic and racist posts by Grok, the artificial-intelligence chatbot that answers questions from X users.

The European Commission has separately been investigating the Musk-owned platform for almost two years now, on suspicion of breaching its landmark platforms regulation, the Digital Services Act.

The spread of misinformation is part of that probe, but the Commission added X’s algorithms to the probe in January after Musk hosted and streamed an interview with far-right German party leader Alice Weidel.

Calls to conclude the EU investigation have intensified in recent months.

This story has been updated.

The post France launches criminal investigation into Musk’s X over algorithm manipulation appeared first on Politico.

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