French prosecutors on have opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over allegations that it distorted its algorithms to control discourse happening on the social media platform.
The Paris public prosecutor’s workplace stated it obtained a report from a French lawmaker on Jan. 12 criticizing X over “biased algorithms” that had been “prone to have distorted the operation of an automatic knowledge processing system.”
Magistrates and specialised assistants of the workplace’s cybercrime part have been tasked with analyzing the report and finishing up preliminary technical checks on the platform, the prosecutor’s workplace instructed CNBC Friday, in emailed feedback.
CNBC has contacted X for remark.
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