By refusing to provide access to his algorithm to the French authorities, X demonstrates that his publication on Github by Elon Musk was indeed pipeau.
Never stingy in dramathe X platform is now embarking on an showdown with the French authorities.
The social network is, in fact, targeted by a criminal investigation of French justice, ” suspected of having biased his algorithm after charges of foreign interference As AFP indicates.
In a long publication this Monday, July 21 at 10:33 am, the platform considers to be the target of a ” political agenda “, And that the investigation” is based on an application diverted from French law » pour « restrict freedom of expression »
She therefore announces that she refused the requests of the French authorities, in particular “ Access to X recommendation algorithm and real -time data concerning all publications of platform users ».
An algorithm supposedly open
However, during Twitter’s acquisition, Elon Musk had promised to publicly open the platform algorithm. For this, he had published the source code on Github.
In reality, the published code has not received any update since July 2023, when it can be assumed that it has been changed since the teams of X.
By refusing to submit algorithm to the French authorities, X somehow admits that the algorithm used on its servers is not that publicly accessible on Github.
“No one is above laws”
At the origin of the case, there is Éric Bothorel, deputy for the 5th district of Côtes-d’Armor. It was after its report that the Paris prosecutor’s office is investigating the Elon Musk social network. The MP for the Republic is mentioned directly in X’s response which considers that the deputy ” seriously involved in the fundamental right of X to fair procedure ».
The interested party also published a press release on X sent to Elon Musk and the platform. He reminds the billionaire that the prosecution and the gendarmerie do not respond to the deputy orders and continue the case of their leader. He also recalls the French definition of freedom of expression: ” Any citizen can speak, write, print freely, except to answer for the abuse of this freedom in the cases determined by law ».
Éric Bothorel also asks several questions directly to Elon Musk.
Do you abuse this freedom to pervert it? Are your algorithms doped for ketamine? Have they naturally become climato-skeptics? Did they put themselves, as if by magic, to make that Grok4 begins to quickly generate anti-Semitic, neonazis and conspiracy speeches, qualifying itself as “mecha-hitler”?
The deputy refers to the recent developments in the Grok chatbot proposed by X, which began to push a conspiratorial, racist and anti -Semitic rethoric, and praise Adolf Hitler and Marine Le Pen.
He ends by emphasizing the European framework of the DSA which should allow the authorities to obtain access to the X algorithm to verify their compliance: “ Human rights and our democracies must remain above the rights of your machines and algorithms ».