ARIS – 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), she added.

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In January, the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor's office received two formal complaints, submitted by a member of the French parliament and a senior official at a French public institution, respectively, Beccuau said.

Both complaints alleged that X's algorithm had been exploited for the purpose of foreign interference, she added.

The Paris prosecutor's office confirmed in February that it was examining these complaints, before announcing on Friday that it had opened the investigation "based on verifications, input from French researchers, and information provided by various public institutions”.

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Laurent Buanec, CEO of X France, stated on the platform in January that X "has strict, clear, and public rules aimed at protecting the platform from hate speech," adding that it "fights disinformation" and that its algorithm "is designed to avoid recommending hateful content”.