X says French accusations of data tampering and fraud are politically motivated

Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, denied the accusations of French prosecutors on pre-tos and alleged fraud on Monday, qualifying them as a politically motivation.

X responded to an announcement earlier this month from the Paris prosecutor’s office, who said she opened an investigation into the two alleged offenses.

The two offenses involved a “automated data processing system”, according to prosecutors, which provided little details on alleged reprehensible acts.

The platform said that the French authorities carried out a “criminal investigation with political motivation on X on the alleged manipulation of its algorithm and” fraudulent extraction of data “.

“X categorically denies these allegations,” he said in a position in his global government of government affairs.

The prosecutor’s office said it had acted on information that two people provided in January to its cybercrime unit. One of them is a deputy, and the other is a senior official in a French government institution. He did not identify them or the institution.

The prosecutors said that the two people alleged an alleged use of X algorithm for the “purposes of foreign interference” without providing details.

The platform said it “remains in the dark” on specific allegations. “However, on the basis of what we know so far, X believes that this investigation deforms French law in order to serve a political program and, ultimately, to restrict freedom of expression.”