Paris prosecutors’ cyber crime unit are raiding the French offices of Elon Musk’s X, with Musk himself summoned along with former X CEO Linda Yaccarino to a hearing in April. The raid is connected to a probe launched in January 2025 over ‘complaints’ about the social media platform’s algorithm. Here we go again…
When the investigation was expanded last July, X said:
“French authorities have launched a politically-motivated criminal investigation into X over the alleged manipulation of its algorithm and alleged “fraudulent data extraction.” X categorically denies these allegations.”
Europol is assisting the investigation. Developing…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”