Onlookers have long suspected that Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) has a right-wing bias embedded in its digital DNA, and, in January of this year, cybercrime authorities in France took it upon themselves to uncover whether this was true or not.

In a lengthy statement issued earlier today, Elon Musk’s X slammed the criminal investigation launched by French authorities into its algorithm as “politically motivated” and said it won’t comply with their demands in order to defend itself against “political censorship.

Elon Musk’s platform X is pushing back against a French criminal investigation, calling it politically driven and a threat to free speech