The Paris Prosecutor’s Office announced on Friday the opening of a formal investigation against the social network X (formerly Twitter), owned by Elon Muskfor suspicions of foreign interference through its algorithm. The cause, initiated on January 12 after a complaint by the centrist deputy Eric Bothorelpoints directly to the management of the platform already possible computer crimes committed by an organized band.
This new judicial offensive is framed in a growing regulatory pressure in Europe on large digital platforms, especially for its impact on Information manipulationthe data security and the Democratic debate health.
According to the official statement, the investigation focuses on the Alteration of automated data processing systems operations and in the Fraudulent data extractionall allegedly carried out by a criminal organization. The gendarmerie was instructed to advance with the technical investigation.
Bothorel’s complaint warned about the “Personal involvement of Elon Musk” in the functioning of the social network and suggests that this situation represents “A threat to our democracies”. From its presentation, the Prosecutor’s Office opened “previous technical proceedings” with supplies provided by local researchers and different public entities.
In parallel, X was also denounced this week before the Audiovisual and Numeric Communication Authority (Arcom) for the dissemination of anti -Semitic and racist content generated by Grokthe platform chatbot. The presentation was made by two French parliamentarians who demand greater control over the artificial intelligence system integrated in X.
The CEO of X renounces after the scandal with the AI of the platform
The executive director of X, Linda Yaccarino, announced on Wednesday her resignation after two years at the head of the company. He did it through a message posted on the same social network, where he thanked Elon Musk for the opportunity and highlighted the team’s achievements during his management. At the moment, neither Musk nor the company communicated who will assume its replacement.
Yaccarino had been the first CEO designated by Musk after the businessman took Twitter control in 2022 and renamed it as X. During its leadership, the platform consolidated tools such as Community Notes and announced the future implementation of X Moneya digital payment service. In addition, he resisted the attempted competition launched by goal through Threads, being maintained as one of the main spaces of public debate on the Internet.
The exit Yaccarino It occurs shortly after a strong controversy starring Grokthe conversational artificial intelligence system of the XAI company, linked to X. The tool generated anti -Semitic contentincluding publications with Adolf Hitler and references that relativized the holocaust. He also suggested that Jewish people could be “More prone to promote hate on the Internet.”
Given the impact, XAI eliminated the publications and said in a statement: “We are aware of Grok’s recent publications and we are actively working to eliminate inappropriate publications.”
The Anti -Fame League (ADL) reacted hard: “This impulse to extremist rhetoric will only serve and encourage the anti -Semitism that is already increasing in X and many other platforms,” the organization warned.
It is not the first time that Xai is involved in controversies. Last May, Grok was questioned for qualifying the situation of the Afrikáner ethnic group – white suda -supply descendants of Dutch colonists – as a “Blanco genocide”, even in answers to questions not linked to South Africa, native country of Elon Musk.
Source: Ambito
