Summary
French prosecutors have launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over allegations that it manipulated its algorithms to distort discourse.
The probe follows a report from a French lawmaker, citing “biased algorithms” that may have interfered with automated data processing.
Meanwhile, the EU is also investigating X for potential violations of the Digital Services Act, demanding internal algorithm documents by Feb. 15.
X has faced criticism for allegedly amplifying far-right content, with Musk publicly supporting Germany’s far-right AfD party.
Ah, the algorithmic puppet masters at X are finally getting their due. How quaint that a platform once hailed as a bastion of free speech now faces criminal probes for engineering discourse through biased code. Musk’s obsession with “free expression” always reeked of selective libertarianism—turns out deregulating hate speech and tweaking algorithms to boost far-right grifters isn’t the marketplace of ideas he promised.
The EU isn’t playing. Demanding internal documents by Feb. 15? Delicious. When your platform’s “innovation” is just repackaged propaganda pipelines, even France’s notoriously slow bureaucracy catches up. Musk cozying up to Germany’s AfD? Predictable. The man’s a walking paradox: colonizing Mars while terraforming social media into a digital cesspool.
Let them investigate. The faster X implodes, the sooner we can resurrect something that isn’t a playground for oligarchs and reactionary bots.
Hey France, can you please arrest him? Then do that thing you do, you know, with the cake and that droppy thing?
We need another french revolution, I’m a brit and you know things are bad when I’m supporting france
I think we speak for all of Europe when we say the end times have come when we say we need the French.
I needed that laugh, thank you ;)
Oh fuck, isn’t there something in the bible about this sort of thing heralding the end times? “The frogs and the posh shall lay down together” or something?
Come on Europe. Fuck this guy up before he fucks our continent up.
Wasn’t he complaining that Twitter’s algorithm was not open source and committed to open source it? What happened to this?
haha you’re so funny… yeah when will the promise keeper guy keep this one promise like all the other shit he ever said
I am really glad to hear that various EU countries are starting Serious Legal Proceedings against eel-on-musk, and I know these things take time, but gods damn I wish they would hurry the fuck up and hit him with some punitive action that he so richly deserves.
Musky manipulating Xitter algo to push a narrative‽ Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well…not that shocked
Thank goodness for France to stand up against these tech oligarchs. The untied cucks of america would never
God it would be so funny if France extradited him or something and trump just said like “yeah take him lol”
Ban X in EU?!? Force people to use bluesky
X has been accused of manipulating its systems to give far-right posts and politicians greater visibility over other political groups.
Before Elon bought Twitter, the system did the exact same thing, but with left-leaning posts. Back then, the French prosecutors didn’t seem to care. Now that the political tide is changing, they suddenly care?
My guy with the receipts!
Twitter 1.0 outright banned right-leaning users. Silencing dissenting voices from online political discourse isn’t considered “gaming the system”?
Does anyone remember when Twitter 1.0 censored stories about the Hunter Biden Laptop? On my book, that’s manipulation.
The problem was when lefties were in charge of Twitter’s moderation team. They were trigger-happy in banning anyone who didn’t agree with their self-proclaimed “social consensus.” In this last U.S. election cycle, we found out this consensus was a lie. Examples:
User1: “I’m against illegal immigration. Deport the illegals now!”
Mod: “Racist!! You’re permanently banned!”
User2: “We gotta have stricter laws for legal refugees. They don’t respect our local customs and bring social issues (i.e., higher crime rates) that burden the taxpayer.”
Mod: “Nazi!! You’re permanently banned!”
User3: “I’m against hormonal therapies and sex-change surgeries on kids. We gotta have legislation that forbids it and makes doctors accountable.”
Mod: “Transphobe!! You’re permanently banned!”
They maliciously extrapolate dissenting opinions to paint them as something bad. People have the right to be dissatisfied with current policies and advocate for change. That shouldn’t be a bannable offense.
You need to have imaginary conversations with yourself to try to pretend you’re not full of shit. What a bozo.
I’m waiting for your counter-arguments. Or is ad hominem the only thing you know?
Scroll up, dipshit. The first reply of your comment had 3 sources exposing your shitheadedness
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I followed some pretty vocal british right leaning voices who seemed like more or less reasonable folk before they later ended up succumbing to Trump hysteria, and I can assure you they did not blanketly ban right wing users at all.
Of the prominent right-wing voices they did, I’m struggling to remember ones that didn’t deserve it at some point for one reason or another.
I remember the Hunter Biden scandal being a hot mess to navigate not least of all because its biggest voices were some of the guiltiest of major misinformation, which made it hard for most reasonable folks to take seriously including the social media companies with Zuckerberg for FB coming out and saying they were limiting it till it could be verified by a third party.
Congratulations on believing propaganda instead of your own eyeballs. The transformation is complete.
Is there any evidence of it favoring left leaning posts?
Sounds like the government of france wants his piece of the cake
That cake involves fElon’s balls covered in cream and stuck in the guillotine
