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.

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.

French authorities have intensified their criminal investigation into X, formerly Twitter, with prosecutors requesting access to the platform’s recommendation algorithm and real-time user post data. The probe,