{"id":25575,"date":"2026-04-19T02:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=25575"},"modified":"2026-04-19T02:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:16:09","slug":"doj-refuses-to-assist-french-authorities-in-felony-probe-of-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=25575","title":{"rendered":"DOJ refuses to assist French authorities in felony probe of X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The US <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apps\/doj-may-face-investigation-for-pressuring-apple-google-to-remove-apps-for-tracking-ice-agents-212145181.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Department of Justice;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yAffiliateService&quot;:&quot;doNotAffiliate&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Department of Justice&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Division of Justice<\/a> is siding with X, because the social media platform owned by Elon Musk navigates a felony investigation unfolding in France. As first reported by <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/justice-department-rebuffs-french-on-x-probe-musk-interview-2b8eb080\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Wall Street Journal;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yAffiliateService&quot;:&quot;doNotAffiliate&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The Wall Street Journal&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\"><em>The Wall Avenue Journal<\/em><\/a>, the Justice Division characterised the French probe as &#8220;an effort to entangle the USA in a politically charged felony continuing geared toward wrongfully regulating by means of prosecution the enterprise actions of a social media platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">France launched its <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/france-launches-criminal-probe-of-xs-alleged-algorithm-manipulation-123017920.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:investigation;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;3&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yAffiliateService&quot;:&quot;doNotAffiliate&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;investigation&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation<\/a> into X in July, accusing the platform of manipulating its algorithm and &#8220;fraudulent knowledge extraction.&#8221; Months later, French authorities <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/social-media\/xs-paris-hq-raided-by-french-prosecutors-110411170.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:raided X&#039;s office;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yAffiliateService&quot;:&quot;doNotAffiliate&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;raided X&#039;s office&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raided X&#8217;s workplace<\/a> in Paris and issued summonses to Musk and Linda Yaccarino, the previous CEO of X, to seem for interviews on April 20 as a part of the probe. In keeping with <em>WSJ<\/em>, French officers are additionally investigating X for different fees, together with disseminating CSAM and Holocaust denial. Nonetheless, France&#8217;s newest transfer to ask the Division of Justice for help has been stonewalled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">\u201cThis investigation seeks to make use of the felony authorized system in France to manage a public sq. for the free expression of concepts and opinions in a way opposite to the First Modification of the USA Structure,&#8221; the DOJ wrote in letter, as seen by <em>WSJ<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">An xAI official advised <em>WSJ<\/em> that it is &#8220;grateful to the Justice Division for rejecting this effort by a prosecutor in Paris to compel our CEO and several other workers to take a seat for interviews.&#8221; The corporate spokesperson additionally mentioned there was &#8220;no wrongdoing&#8221; and that it was a &#8220;baseless investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Division of Justice is siding with X, because the social media platform owned by Elon Musk navigates a felony investigation unfolding in France. As first reported by The Wall Avenue Journal, the Justice Division characterised the French probe as &#8220;an effort to entangle the USA in a politically charged felony continuing geared toward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pc-gimmick"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25576,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25575\/revisions\/25576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}