Elon Musk's X platform investigated in France for alleged data tampering and fraud
The Paris prosecutor's office, in a statement Friday, announced the opening of the investigation, and said that a branch of the French gendarmerie is conducting the inquiry.
The investigation is looking into two alleged offenses 'in particular' — organized tampering with the functioning of an automated data processing system, and organized fraudulent extraction of data from an automated data processing system, the statement said.
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