PARIS — French prosecutors announced Friday that they have launched a police investigation into alleged data tampering and fraud involving X, Elon Musk’s platform.

The investigation by the Paris prosecutor’s office is looking into two alleged offenses “in particular” — organized tampering with the functioning of an automated data processing system, and organized fraudulent extraction of data from an automated data processing system, the statement said.

It said the investigation is targeting the platform and people, without identifying them or saying what role they might have within X.

The prosecutor’s office said it was acting on information that two people provided in January to its cybercrimes unit. — Associated Press