French prosecutors investigate Musk’s X on the alleged algorithmic bias

Paris: The French prosecutors said Friday that they opened an investigation into the social media platform X of Elon Musk on the alleged algorithmic bias.

The news of the investigation occurs only a few days before a great summit of AI in Paris, which is due to global leaders, including the vice president of the United States, JD Vance, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as well as to Alphabet and Microsoft executives.

The Paris Prosecutor’s Office said he launched the investigation after being contacted on January 12 by a legislator claiming that the biased algorithms would probably have distorted the operation of an automated data processing system.

X, previously known as Twitter, did not respond to a request for comments.

The research underlines the growing caution on the power of X, the name given to Twitter by the multimillionaire of Musk technology after buying the social networks network.

Musk has used X to personally support right -handed and causes in countries such as Germany and Britain, leading concerns about undue foreign interference.

The legislator of the French centrists Eric Bothorel, publishing in X, said he had written to the J3 cyber crimes unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office with his concerns that X was using biased algorithms, said a Franceinfo report.

“Specialized prosecutors and assistants of the Cyber ​​Crimes Unit are analyzing and making initial technical checks,” said Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office in an email to Reuters.

“I sent a letter to the office of the prosecutor of Cyber ​​J3 on this issue on January 12,” Bothorel wrote in X.

Unit J3 of the Paris prosecutor’s office led the investigation of last year, Telegram Chief Pavel Durov, who was arrested after landing at an airport in Paris. Durov, who is on bail, denies the accusations, but Telegram has said that it is cooperating more closely with the police to eliminate the illegal content.

The J3 unit has shown a will to use novel and aggressive laws to attack the owners of the main platforms.

X was blocked for more than a month in Brazil last year for not stopping the dissemination of erroneous information, before complying with an order from the Supreme Court that allowed the network to be restored.