Elon Musk's X faces criminal probe in France over algorithm manipulation concerns
Elon Musk's X faces criminal probe in France over algorithm manipulation concerns
French prosecutors have opened an investigation into X over allegations that it distorted its algorithms.
Summary
French prosecutors have launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over allegations that it manipulated its algorithms to distort discourse.
The probe follows a report from a French lawmaker, citing "biased algorithms" that may have interfered with automated data processing.
Meanwhile, the EU is also investigating X for potential violations of the Digital Services Act, demanding internal algorithm documents by Feb. 15.
X has faced criticism for allegedly amplifying far-right content, with Musk publicly supporting Germany’s far-right AfD party.
Hey France, can you please arrest him? Then do that thing you do, you know, with the cake and that droppy thing?
We need another french revolution, I'm a brit and you know things are bad when I'm supporting france
Come on Europe. Fuck this guy up before he fucks our continent up.
Ah, the algorithmic puppet masters at X are finally getting their due. How quaint that a platform once hailed as a bastion of free speech now faces criminal probes for engineering discourse through biased code. Musk’s obsession with “free expression” always reeked of selective libertarianism—turns out deregulating hate speech and tweaking algorithms to boost far-right grifters isn’t the marketplace of ideas he promised.
The EU isn’t playing. Demanding internal documents by Feb. 15? Delicious. When your platform’s “innovation” is just repackaged propaganda pipelines, even France’s notoriously slow bureaucracy catches up. Musk cozying up to Germany’s AfD? Predictable. The man’s a walking paradox: colonizing Mars while terraforming social media into a digital cesspool.
Let them investigate. The faster X implodes, the sooner we can resurrect something that isn’t a playground for oligarchs and reactionary bots.
thanks GPT
Musky manipulating Xitter algo to push a narrative‽ Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well....not that shocked
Wasn't he complaining that Twitter's algorithm was not open source and committed to open source it? What happened to this?
haha you're so funny... yeah when will the promise keeper guy keep this one promise like all the other shit he ever said
Thank goodness for France to stand up against these tech oligarchs. The untied cucks of america would never
I am really glad to hear that various EU countries are starting Serious Legal Proceedings against eel-on-musk, and I know these things take time, but gods damn I wish they would hurry the fuck up and hit him with some punitive action that he so richly deserves.
Ban X in EU?!? Force people to use bluesky
God it would be so funny if France extradited him or something and trump just said like "yeah take him lol"
X has been accused of manipulating its systems to give far-right posts and politicians greater visibility over other political groups.
Before Elon bought Twitter, the system did the exact same thing, but with left-leaning posts. Back then, the French prosecutors didn't seem to care. Now that the political tide is changing, they suddenly care?
Is there any evidence of it favoring left leaning posts?
Sounds like the government of france wants his piece of the cake
That cake involves fElon's balls covered in cream and stuck in the guillotine