The United States denounced on Friday an open criminal investigation in France against the social network X, owned by Elon Musk, suspected of foreign interference.
“As part of a criminal investigation, a French militant prosecutor requests information about the X -owned algorithm and classified X as an ‘organized criminal group’,” said the United States State Department in a message on this same network on Friday.
“The United States will defend the freedom of expression of all Americans against acts of foreign censorship,” he added.
Since his return to power in January, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has denounced, as well as vice president JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who considers threats to freedom of expression in Europe.
Foreign interference
Directed by a criminal investigation by the French justice, the X platform, suspected of having biased its algorithm after the accusations of foreign interference, denounced a “political agenda” last Monday, and says that he refused to access the requests of the Paris prosecutor’s office that required access to his algorithm.
According to X, the French authorities have requested access to their recommendation algorithm, as well as real time data regarding all the publications of the platform users.
The Paris Prosecutor’s Office had indicated on July 11 that an investigation had been entrusted to the Gendarmerie on Network X, as a legal entity, and against the “natural persons” who direct it.
This survey, entrusted to the General Directorate of the National Gendarmerie, is related “in particular” to the alteration of the operation of an automated organized band processing system and the fraudulent data extraction from an automated processing system in an organized band.
X “Categorically denies” the accusations of manipulation of its algorithm for foreign interference purposes, “an accusation that is completely false,” the social network replied on Monday, in a publication shared by the United States State Department.
Source: BFM TV
