Overview

• The prosecutor’s cybercrime division formally opened a criminal investigation into X on July 9 following allegations of algorithmic bias to facilitate foreign interference.
• The national gendarmerie has been assigned to probe possible alteration of automated data processing systems and organized data extraction fraud.
• Complaints filed in January by MP Éric Bothorel and a public cybersecurity director alleged X’s algorithm promoted politically hateful and divisive content in France.
• Prosecutors cited contributions from French researchers and public institutions in basing the inquiry on signs of manipulated automated systems.
• Laurent Buanec, head of X France, reaffirmed that the platform maintains strict, transparent rules to prevent hate speech and bias in content recommendation.