Elon Musk's X faces criminal probe in France over algorithm manipulation concerns
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Oh fuck, isn't there something in the bible about this sort of thing heralding the end times? "The frogs and the posh shall lay down together" or something?
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Come on Europe. Fuck this guy up before he fucks our continent up.
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X has been accused of manipulating its systems to give far-right posts and politicians greater visibility over other political groups.
Before Elon bought Twitter, the system did the exact same thing, but with left-leaning posts. Back then, the French prosecutors didn't seem to care. Now that the political tide is changing, they suddenly care?
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Is there any evidence of it favoring left leaning posts?
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My guy with the receipts!
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God it would be so funny if France extradited him or something and trump just said like "yeah take him lol"
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haha you're so funny... yeah when will the promise keeper guy keep this one promise like all the other shit he ever said
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I followed some pretty vocal british right leaning voices who seemed like more or less reasonable folk before they later ended up succumbing to Trump hysteria, and I can assure you they did not blanketly ban right wing users at all.
Of the prominent right-wing voices they did, I'm struggling to remember ones that didn't deserve it at some point for one reason or another.
I remember the Hunter Biden scandal being a hot mess to navigate not least of all because its biggest voices were some of the guiltiest of major misinformation, which made it hard for most reasonable folks to take seriously including the social media companies with Zuckerberg for FB coming out and saying they were limiting it till it could be verified by a third party.
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I am really glad to hear that various EU countries are starting Serious Legal Proceedings against eel-on-musk, and I know these things take time, but gods damn I wish they would hurry the fuck up and hit him with some punitive action that he so richly deserves.
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Congratulations on believing propaganda instead of your own eyeballs. The transformation is complete.
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That cake involves fElon's balls covered in cream and stuck in the guillotine
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Go fuck yourself.
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The problem was when lefties were in charge of Twitter's moderation team. They were trigger-happy in banning anyone who didn’t agree with their self-proclaimed "social consensus." In this last U.S. election cycle, we found out this consensus was a lie. Examples:
User1: "I'm against illegal immigration. Deport the illegals now!"
Mod: "Racist!! You're permanently banned!"User2: "We gotta have stricter laws for legal refugees. They don't respect our local customs and bring social issues (i.e., higher crime rates) that burden the taxpayer."
Mod: "Nazi!! You're permanently banned!"User3: "I'm against hormonal therapies and sex-change surgeries on kids. We gotta have legislation that forbids it and makes doctors accountable."
Mod: "Transphobe!! You're permanently banned!"They maliciously extrapolate dissenting opinions to paint them as something bad. People have the right to be dissatisfied with current policies and advocate for change. That shouldn't be a bannable offense.
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You need to have imaginary conversations with yourself to try to pretend you're not full of shit. What a bozo.
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Ah, the algorithmic puppet masters at X are finally getting their due. How quaint that a platform once hailed as a bastion of free speech now faces criminal probes for engineering discourse through biased code. Musk’s obsession with “free expression” always reeked of selective libertarianism—turns out deregulating hate speech and tweaking algorithms to boost far-right grifters isn’t the marketplace of ideas he promised.
The EU isn’t playing. Demanding internal documents by Feb. 15? Delicious. When your platform’s “innovation” is just repackaged propaganda pipelines, even France’s notoriously slow bureaucracy catches up. Musk cozying up to Germany’s AfD? Predictable. The man’s a walking paradox: colonizing Mars while terraforming social media into a digital cesspool.
Let them investigate. The faster X implodes, the sooner we can resurrect something that isn’t a playground for oligarchs and reactionary bots.
