{"id":948773,"date":"2025-07-22T11:44:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=948773"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:44:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:14:27","slug":"elon-musks-x-calls-french-probe-a-politically-motivated-criminal-investigation-says-wont-cooperate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/22\/elon-musks-x-calls-french-probe-a-politically-motivated-criminal-investigation-says-wont-cooperate\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s X calls French probe \u2018a politically-motivated criminal investigation\u2019; says won\u2019t cooperate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk-owned microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter) said it will not cooperate with a French probe allegedly accusing it of data tampering. According to news agency Reuters, the company accused French prosecutors of launching a &#8220;politically-motivated criminal investigation&#8221; which, it claims, threatens its users&#8217; free speech. Denying all allegations against it, X said that it would not cooperate with the probe. Sharing a post via its Global Government Affairs account, X said \u201cBased 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\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For these reasons, X has not acceded to the French authorities&#8217; demands, as we have a legal right to do,&#8221; the post added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk-owned microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter) said it will not cooperate with a French probe allegedly accusing it of data tampering. According to news agency Reuters, the company accused French prosecutors of launching a &#8220;politically-motivated criminal investigation&#8221; which, it claims, threatens its users&#8217; free speech. Denying all allegations against it, X said that it would not cooperate with the probe. Sharing a post via its Global Government Affairs account, X said \u201cBased 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\u201d. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}