X claimed that David Chavalarias, “who leads the” Escape X “campaign” – who is “dedicated to encourage X users to leave the platform” – was chosen to assess the data with one of his previous research offer, Maziyar Panahi.
“The involvement of these persons calls serious concern about the impartiality, fairness and political motivations of the investigation, to make it charitable,” claimed X. “A predetermined outcome is not a fair.”
Panahi, however, told Reuters that he believes that X blamed him 'accidentally', only based on his earlier association with Chavalarias. He further clarified that “no” of his projects with Chavalarias “once had a hostile intention of X” and threatened legal steps to protect himself against defamation if he receives “some form of hate speech” because of X's apparent error and the wrong characteristic of his research. An ARS evaluation suggests that his research on social media platforms dates from before the ownership of Xk of X and has investigated whether certain recommendation systems may make platforms toxic or influence presidential campaigns.
“The fact that my name is mentioned in such an incorrect way shows how little esteem they have for the life of others,” Panahi told Reuters.
X denies to be an “organized gang”
X suggests that “it remains” in the dark about the specific accusations against the platform “, and accuses the French police of” deforming French law to serve a political agenda and ultimately limit the free speech. “
The press release is indeed vague about what the French police are trying to discover. All French authorities say that they are investigating X for alleged “tampering with the operation of an automated data processing system by an organized gang” and “fraudulent extraction of data from an automated data processing system by an organized gang.” But later a French magistrate, Laure Beccuau, clarified in a statement that the probe was based on complaints that X “is spreading a huge amount of hateful, racist, anti-lgbt+ and homophobic political content, who wants to shoot the democratic debate in France,” Politro reported.
