{"id":256435,"date":"2025-07-11T14:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/256435\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T14:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:53:10","slug":"france-launches-criminal-investigation-into-musks-x-over-algorithm-manipulation-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/256435\/","title":{"rendered":"France launches criminal investigation into Musk\u2019s X over algorithm manipulation \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A complaint that sparked the initial January inquiry accused X\u00a0of spreading \u201can enormous amount of hateful, racist, anti-LGBT+ and homophobic political content, which aims to skew the democratic debate in France.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>POLITICO has reached out to X for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation lands as X is increasingly under fire from regulators in Paris and Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>Two French parliamentarians referred the platform to France\u2019s digital regulator Arcom on Thursday following anti-Semitic and racist posts by Grok, the artificial-intelligence chatbot that answers questions from X users.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-meta-apple-x-fines-digital-antitrust-rules-digital-services-act-elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">separately been investigating the Musk-owned platform<\/a> for almost two years now, on suspicion of breaching its landmark platforms regulation, the Digital Services Act.<\/p>\n<p>The spread of misinformation is part of that probe, but the Commission added X\u2019s algorithms to the probe in January after Musk hosted and streamed an interview with far-right German party leader Alice Weidel.<\/p>\n<p>Calls to conclude the EU investigation have intensified in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>This story has been updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A complaint that sparked the initial January inquiry accused X\u00a0of spreading \u201can enormous amount of hateful, racist, anti-LGBT+&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[3721,2814,295,2000,299,36,2452,182],"class_list":{"0":"post-256435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-algorithms","9":"tag-data","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-media","15":"tag-social-media"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114835174400720288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}