PARIS, Feb 7 (Reuters) - French prosecutors have opened

an investigation into Elon Musk's X social media platform over

alleged algorithmic bias, Franceinfo reported on Friday, citing

an official statement.

News of the probe comes just days before a major AI summit

in Paris, which is due to host global leaders including U.S.

Vice President JD Vance and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi,

as well as Alphabet and Microsoft ( MSFT ) executives.

The Paris prosecutor's office did not respond to a Reuters

request for comment. Nor did X, formerly known as Twitter.

The reported investigation underlines growing global

wariness over the power of X, the name given to Twitter by tech

billionaire Musk after he bought the social media network.

Musk has used X to personally support right-wing parties and

causes in countries including Germany and Britain, leading to

concerns about undue foreign interference.

The French investigation was opened after centrist lawmaker

Eric Bothorel, posting on X, said he had written to the J3

cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutors' office with his

concerns that X was using biased algorithms, Franceinfo said.

X's algorithms are "likely to have distorted the operation

of an automated data processing system. The prosecutors and

specialised assistants from the cybercrime unit are analysing it

and carrying out initial technical checks," Franceinfo cited the

Paris public prosecutor's office as saying.

"I sent a letter to the cyber J3 prosecutor's office on this

subject on Jan. 12," Bothorel wrote on X.

The J3 unit of the Paris prosecutors' office led last year's

probe of Telegram boss Pavel Durov, who was arrested after

landing at a Paris airport. Durov, who is out on bail, denies

the allegations, but Telegram has since said it is cooperating

more closely with police to remove illegal content.

The J3 unit has shown a willingness to use novel and

aggressive laws to target the owners of major platforms.

X was blocked for more than five months in Brazil last year

for failing to stop the spread of misinformation, before

eventually complying with a Supreme Court order that allowed for

the network to be reestablished.