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X
was responding to an announcement earlier this month from the
Paris prosecutor’s office, which said it was opening an
investigation into the two alleged offenses.
Both offenses involved an "automated data processing system,"
according to prosecutors, who provided scant details of the
alleged wrongdoing. They are potentially punishable in France
with a jail term of up to 10 years.
The platform said French authorities were carrying out a
"politically-motivated criminal investigation into X over the
alleged manipulation of its algorithm and alleged ‘fraudulent
data extraction’.”
“X categorically denies these allegations,” it said in a post
from its Global Government Affairs account.
The prosecutor’s office has said it acted on information that
two people provided in January to its cybercrimes unit. One of
them is a member of parliament, and the other is a senior
official in a French government institution. It didn’t identify
them or the institution.
Prosecutors said the two people alleged suspected use of X’s
algorithm for the “purposes of foreign interference,” without
providing details.
The platform said it “remains in the dark” about the the
specific allegations. “However, based on what we know so far, X
believes that this investigation is distorting French law in
order to serve a political agenda and, ultimately, restrict free
speech.”
The Paris prosecutor’s office said Monday that it has asked X to
grant police investigators access to its algorithm, as part of
the probe.
The request was made in a letter last week, it said. It said
that “investigators are bound by confidentiality and that only
those in charge of the investigation will have access.”
The office said it hasn’t had a formal response from X.
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