Verified Hate Speech Accounts [on X] Are Pivoting to Palestine for Clout and Cash

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨jeffw@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/twitter-hate-speech-accounts-palestine-clout-1234867382/

Highlights: [P]aid clout-chasers on X, formerly Twitter, are using the conflict to boost their profiles — and a few who have successfully pivoted to pro-Palestine content were formerly known for hate speech, extremism, and conspiracy theories.

Other verified accounts that have quickly increased in size over the past several weeks by focusing on the suffering of Palestinians, but previously displayed a pattern of transphobic and LGBTQ comments, include former UFC and MMA fighter Jake Shields, banned YouTuber Ryan Dawson, and an anonymous “anti-woke” account called “Lord Bebo.”

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BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What’s the point of this article? That even conservatives can see that Palestine is being victimized? Is it trying to cast doubt on the fact that Israel is committing genocide by associating the idea with undesirables?

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- TheBananaKing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The latter, clearly.
  
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- clearleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The 2nd one. And the exact same message is actually going out in the right wing world. They’re being told that believing in Palestine’s right to exist is libtard subterfuge, therefore you MUST support Israel and hate Palestine if you want to oppose the left. Only american fox news types seem to be into it. The fact that I’m now seeing this article trying to associate Palestine with right wing extremists instead, it feels like a crappy editorial cartoon came to life.
  
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- BlueBockser@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It shows that these people are populist leeches that will agitate against whatever the perceived establishment is doing. They’re just anti-everything, whatever gets them the most attention at any point in time: Anti-immigration, anti-LGBTQ, anti-vaccination, anti-Israel, you name it.
  
  Also, we should equally not forget that Hamas and their Palestinian, Arab and Islamic supporters are perpetrating a genocide against Israel and the Jewish people.
  
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Scrof@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They don’t pivot lol, Israel is literally the only safe place in the Middle East for trans and LGBTQ people. Islam is violently anti-woke by definition, not to mention all of its more extremist appendages. One must be completely stupid to not understand it.

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- jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You can support Palestine, a 2 state solution, etc. and also support LGBTQ rights
  
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  - rivermonster@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Can you though?
    
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- 5BC2E7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  a lot of “people” seem to disagree with your comment but don’t have anything to counter with…
  
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- burchalka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Same with women rights…
  
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- Meowoem@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah and they’re all conspiracy theorist anti-liberal accounts, that whole sphere is built on anti-Semitism. Like it takes thirty seconds in a conversation with someone in there’s groups to hear that the Jews are using LGBT and anti-racism to destroy Western society, that Jews control the world and they own the world bank which funded COVID to spread communism…
  
  Yes most of them hate Muslims but they think Jews are the cause of all their problems, they think ‘the matrix’ is a Jewish plot, they think gay and trans people are a Jewish plot, they think George Soros is personally stopping them getting promoted at work and the their ex wife left them because the Rothschild’s turned her and the weens against them.
  
  There is zero mystery here.
  
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RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The title makes it sound like twitter now lets you pay to become a “verified hate speech account”, which doesn’t sound that unrealistic these days.

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shogun5000@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Lol, “hate speech”. So Orwellian.

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- Marketsupreme@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  OK free speech warrior dog whistler
  
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  - shogun5000@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    (fart noise)
    
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rivermonster@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Here on Lemmt it’s the worldnews community that’s become a hate group on this topic. Probably a lot of the X accounts are from that crew.

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- Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Lol I got banned from one of the world news communities for “genocide denial” for pointing out that Biden might be reasonable for doubting the exact death toll numbers coming out of Gaza’s government in that we should be reasonably skeptical of the claims from both sides of this war since they’re both demonstrably willing to lie to shift blame.
  
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  - rivermonster@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah, their admins are an abomination.
    
    I’ve watched them remove multiple stories where the Palestinian PM refused to condem hamas and the attack on the 7th but constantly allowed MBFC debunked sources (against their own rules) as long as it’s antisemtic
    
    And you didn’t get banned from it. They saved you from engaging with them. Plus, now we know Lemmy worldnews isn’t an alternative to anything except maybe Stormfront.
    
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JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Twitter is a welfare plan for neo Nazis.

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autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:

These aggressive strategies have led unsuspecting users seeking up-to-date context on the war, particularly narratives that challenge official statements from the U.S. and Israel, to interact with and amplify potentially harmful accounts.

It’s because the account, launched in December 2022, was originally used largely to protest the innocence of misogynist manosphere figure Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, who were detained in Romania that month and later charged with rape and human trafficking.

Anastasia Maria Loupis, a doctor in Denmark who has long argued that the Covid vaccines are harmful and face masks are ineffective — elsewhere railing against the “trans agenda” — gained about 240,000 followers in the past month, putting her in reach of a million.

“The people who helped create, develop, distribute, and force the ‘vaccines’ on you and your children are all supporters of Israel,” she tweeted in mid-October, along with a video identifying Jewish pharmaceutical executives with the yellow Star of David badge used by Nazis.

In practice, however, Hinkle’s frenetic, near-constant tweets are rife with misinformation — as when he falsely claimed that old photos showed “thousands” of U.S. Marines now landing in Israel or current U.S. airstrikes in eastern Syria — and harrowing, uncensored violent images.

He also whitewashes military actions taken by Vladimir Putin against Ukraine and calls Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a “hero” despite his government’s own deadly siege against a refugee camp of Palestinians in the Yarmouk district Damascus.

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