Terrorists Are Paying for Check Marks on XTwitter

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• nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anyone who is actually surprised by this has not been paying attention.

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  • littlebluespark@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lemme guess, they’re not talking about the ones here in the States…

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• SouthFresh@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doesn’t a terrorist own it?

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  • BumbleBeeButt@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, It’s an African mine brat

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    • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      With securities backed by wahabi terrorists.

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• masquenox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes, we know - the alt-right is already on twitter.

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• SteefLem@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thought they got an automatic checkmark from elon

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  • Diplomjodler@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Only the domestic ones.

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• bykdd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  like netanyahu and idf. all terrorists is over there,

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• redfox@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When you want to ensure the hate and ethnic cleaning propaganda is authentic…

  /s

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• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t you get several virgins if you do get that check mark?

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• RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The mark just means you paid so idk why it matters

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, is potentially violating U.S. sanctions by accepting payments for subscription accounts from terrorist organizations and other groups barred from doing business in the country, according to a new report.

  “We were surprised to find that X was providing premium services to a wide range of groups the U.S. has sanctioned for terrorism and other activities that harm its national security,” said Katie Paul, the director of the Tech Transparency Project.

  Mr. Musk also did away with Twitter’s verification policy, in which staff members vetted politicians, celebrities, journalists and others, granting them a blue check mark to show they were real.

  Internet companies have previously leaned on the amendments, including in 2020 when TikTok argued that they protected the app from an effort by President Donald J. Trump to block U.S. citizens from downloading it.

  Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, appears to have started paying X in November for a premium account and frequently posts news releases and memes mocking the United States and Israel to his 93,000 followers.

  And the Yemeni militia known as the Houthis subscribed this month, just weeks after the United States said it would be designated a terrorist group following its attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea.

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• PatFussy@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Stop dead naming X

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  • magnetosphere@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t support corporate “personhood”. Refusing to call Twitter by the stupid name Musk has given it is 100% acceptable.

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  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The apartheid network now identifying as X

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  • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You have to be alive to be deadnamed. Which part of Twitter is sentient again?

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