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The cybercrime fighting section of the Paris prosecutor’s office opened on July 9 an investigation targeting the social network X. Consequently, its leaders, suspected of having biased the platform algorithm for foreign interference purposes, the Paris prosecutor announced.
An investigation was entrusted to the national gendarmerie against the X network. Consequently, as a legal person, and against the ‘natural persons’ who directs it, said on Friday Laure Beccuau in a press release, without quoting the name of its owner Elon Musk, a multimillionaire also boss of Tesla.
This comes after two reports received on January 12. For example, which reported the supposed use of the X (ex-Twitter) algorithm for foreign interference, ‘details the public prosecutor.
The first came from the Macronist MP for Côtes-d’Armor specializing in these questions, Eric Bothorel. He alerted the prosecution to ‘recent changes in X algorithm. as well survey open france against x as apparent interference in its management since its acquisition by Elon Musk’ in 2022.
He underlined a ‘reduction in the diversity of votes. options’, a platform which moves away from a goal of guaranteeing a safe and respectful environment for all’, a lack of clarity as to the criteria that led to changes in algorithms and moderation decisions’, as well as’ personal interventions of Elon Musk in the management of its platform ‘, a real danger and a threat to our democracies’.
Hateful contents
According to information from the Duck chained in February. the second report came from a director of cybersecurity in the public service who had reported a major modification in the algorithm used by the X platform which today offers a lot of hateful, racist, anti-LGBT+political content, homophobic and which therefore aim to bias the democratic debate in France ‘.
The prosecution. which had confirmed in early survey open france against x February studying these reports, said in its press release on Friday to have opened this procedure ‘on the basis of verifications, contributions from French researchers and elements provided by various public institutions’.
The survey was entrusted to the Directorate General of the National Gendarmerie. and relates ‘in particular’ to the following offenses: alteration of the operation of an automated processing system of organized band data, as well as fraudulent data of data from an automated processing system in organized band.
The boss of X France. Laurent Buanec, had provided on January 22 on his social network that ‘X has strict, clear and public rules aimed at protecting the platform from hate speeches’,’ fight against disinformation ‘and that his algorithm is built so as to avoid offering you hateful content.’
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