The US Department of Justice is siding with X, because the social media platform owned by Elon Musk navigates a legal investigation unfolding in France. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the Justice Division characterised the French probe as “an effort to entangle the USA in a politically charged legal continuing aimed toward wrongfully regulating via prosecution the enterprise actions of a social media platform.”
France launched its investigation into X in July, accusing the platform of manipulating its algorithm and “fraudulent knowledge extraction.” Months later, French authorities raided X’s office in Paris and issued summonses to Musk and Linda Yaccarino, the previous CEO of X, to seem for interviews on April 20 as a part of the probe. In keeping with WSJ, French officers are additionally investigating X for different fees, together with disseminating CSAM and Holocaust denial. Nevertheless, France’s newest transfer to ask the Division of Justice for help has been stonewalled.
“This investigation seeks to make use of the legal authorized system in France to manage a public sq. for the free expression of concepts and opinions in a way opposite to the First Modification of the USA Structure,” the DOJ wrote in letter, as seen by WSJ.
An xAI official instructed WSJ that it is “grateful to the Justice Division for rejecting this effort by a prosecutor in Paris to compel our CEO and several other staff to take a seat for interviews.” The corporate spokesperson additionally stated there was “no wrongdoing” and that it was a “baseless investigation.”
