US condemns French inquiry into social media platform X

WASHINGTON: US officials issued a harsh condemnation Friday of France’s criminal investigation into the social network X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, on suspicion of foreign interference.

“As part of a criminal investigation, an activist French prosecutor is requesting information on X’s proprietary algorithm and has classified X as an ‘organized crime group,'” the US State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor wrote on their X account.