Investigation opened in France against social network X for foreign interference

The Paris prosecutor's office's cybercrime unit opened an investigation on Wednesday, July 9, into the social network X and its executives, who are suspected of having rigged the platform 's algorithm for foreign interference, the Paris prosecutor announced on Friday, July 11.

Following two reports received in January, which "reported the alleged use of the X [ex-Twitter] algorithm for foreign interference," an investigation was entrusted to the national gendarmerie against the X network, as a legal entity, and against the "natural persons" who run it, Laure Beccuau said in a press release, without citing the name of its boss, Elon Musk.

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