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- X says French accusations of data tampering and fraud are politically motivated</p>
<p>The July 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM</p>
<p>FILE - The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone, Oct. 16, 2023, in Sydney. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File) ()</p>
<p>PARIS (AP) — Elon Musk's social media platform X on Monday denied accusations from French prosecutors of alleged data tampering and fraud, calling them politically motivated.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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'."</p>
<p>"X categorically denies these allegations," it said in a post from its Global Government Affairs account.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Prosecutors said the two people alleged suspected use of X's algorithm for the "purposes of foreign interference," without providing details.</p>
<p>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."</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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."</p>
<p>The office said it hasn't had a formal response from X.</p>
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