• -RJ-@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Surely America wouldn’t interfere with a foreign election. Surely.

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    14 hours ago

    Trumps going to go bananas over this one, despite his and musks falling out.

    Don’t want any info on how election interference is being done in Europe to appear in the news. It might highlight some discrepancies on home turf.

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    15 hours ago

    I’m not sure I understand the charges. “X stands accused of the ‘alteration of the functioning of an automated data processing system by an organized group’ as well as the ‘fraudulent extraction of data from an automated data processing system by an organized group.’” The article makes it seem like they are being charged because of how the platform is used, but the charges make it seem like the company hacked into someone else’s system. It’s the former, right?

    I don’t see how the first charge makes sense if that’s the case. How does that differ from just changing the algorithm? Are they suggesting X should never be able to change it?

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      13 hours ago

      So it seems they are being charged for altering their own algorithm. According to this article: https://www.politico.eu/article/france-opens-criminal-probe-into-x-for-algorithm-manipulation/

      Magistrate Laure Beccuau said in a statement Friday that prosecutors had launched the probe on Wednesday and were looking into whether the social media giant broke French law by altering its algorithms and fraudulently extracting data from users.

      "X stands accused of the ‘alteration of the functioning of an automated data processing system by an organized group’

      This would be the interference charge.

      ‘fraudulent extraction of data from an automated data processing system by an organized group.’

      This would be the illegal gathering of user data charge.

      Also a thing to remember is that while the US has Section 230 which protects sites like Twitter (never gonna call it X) from being responsible for what their user post, that is not the case in countries outside the US. Other countries can hold Twitter responsible for things their users post on the website.

      As for my interpretations it seems the French government seems to think that Twitter has modified their algorithms to influence public opinion to affect elections or for other purposes.

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      14 hours ago

      There’s probably some important context the article leaves out. Maybe French law requires companies to not align with political groups or something.

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        14 hours ago

        Or maybe it doesn’t actually make sense, because it’s just another of the many cases of lawfare ongoing right now around the world.

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          7 hours ago

          Heads up this person also says that immigrants “ruin the natural state of public places” so they really aren’t worth listening to.

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            6 hours ago

            Nice try, but I said that massive unchecked immigration is ruining the state of public places, which is entirely correct. Maybe if you actually engaged with people instead of demanding that everyone you talk too must contort themselves into whatever overly narrow mould your masters have provided you to avoid having to actually think, you’d actually understand that cramming 2313412413545245 of anyone into a place built to support 3000 isn’t ever going to work, and you are literally a pawn for repeating that shit without actually understanding anything.

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              6 hours ago

              which is entirely correct

              No the fuck it isn’t. Shut the fuck up, racist.

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                  6 hours ago

                  Making racists feel unwelcome when spouting their shitty opinions. It seems to be working.

        • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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          8 hours ago

          lawfare

          Just like the many court cases against Trump, amirite? Weaponized DOJ and such. Socialist Fascism. Always in the way of good old ❄️🍑.