Trumps going to go bananas over this one, despite his and musks falling out.
Don't want any info on how election interference is being done in Europe to appear in the news. It might highlight some discrepancies on home turf.
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Sending some serious thoughts and prayers about this one.
Surely America wouldn't interfere with a foreign election. Surely.
France Opens Criminal Investigation into Musk’s butthole.
I'm not sure I understand the charges. "X stands accused of the 'alteration of the functioning of an automated data processing system by an organized group' as well as the 'fraudulent extraction of data from an automated data processing system by an organized group.'" The article makes it seem like they are being charged because of how the platform is used, but the charges make it seem like the company hacked into someone else's system. It's the former, right?
I don't see how the first charge makes sense if that's the case. How does that differ from just changing the algorithm? Are they suggesting X should never be able to change it?
So it seems they are being charged for altering their own algorithm. According to this article: https://www.politico.eu/article/france-opens-criminal-probe-into-x-for-algorithm-manipulation/
Magistrate Laure Beccuau said in a statement Friday that prosecutors had launched the probe on Wednesday and were looking into whether the social media giant broke French law by altering its algorithms and fraudulently extracting data from users.
"X stands accused of the 'alteration of the functioning of an automated data processing system by an organized group'
This would be the interference charge.
'fraudulent extraction of data from an automated data processing system by an organized group.'
This would be the illegal gathering of user data charge.
Also a thing to remember is that while the US has Section 230 which protects sites like Twitter (never gonna call it X) from being responsible for what their user post, that is not the case in countries outside the US. Other countries can hold Twitter responsible for things their users post on the website.
As for my interpretations it seems the French government seems to think that Twitter has modified their algorithms to influence public opinion to affect elections or for other purposes.
There's probably some important context the article leaves out. Maybe French law requires companies to not align with political groups or something.