DAVID MARCUS: Why are we letting foreign foes use X payouts to wage war against us?

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. The Paris prosecutor's office reportedly said the raid was related to an investigation into content recommended by X's algorithm and the built-in AI chatbot Grok. Imagine if, during World War II, the Germans had been able to pay millions of dollars to minor American celebrities to run pro-Nazi short films in U.S. movie theaters. It sounds absurd, but it is actually miniscule compared to what our enemies can achieve today through social media. On Tuesday night, Alexis Wilkins, the girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel, dropped a stunning thread on X alleging that several high-ranking figures in the conservative politics orbit were engaged in a 22-month "foreign-linked influence network" attacking her and the Trump administration. Wilkins convincingly purports to show that online campaigns in 2024 painting her as an Israeli spy were coordinated through