French police launch investigation into social media platform X

12/7/2025 7:38

The Paris prosecutor's office announced on Friday that the social media platform X is under investigation by French police.



At this stage, X is primarily accused of two offenses -- "impairing the operation of an automated data processing system by an organized group," and "fraudulently extracting data from an automated data processing system by an organized group," Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a press release.



The investigation has been assigned to the Directorate-General of the National Gendarmerie (DGGN), Beccuau added.



In January, the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor's office received two formal complaints, submitted respectively by a member of the French parliament and a senior official at a French public institution, Beccuau said, adding that both complaints alleged that X's algorithm had been exploited for the purpose of foreign interference.