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[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 55 points 9 months ago

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

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Lemme guess, they're not talking about the ones here in the States...

[-] SouthFresh@lemmy.ml 37 points 9 months ago

Doesn't a terrorist own it?

[-] BumbleBeeButt@lemmy.zip 18 points 9 months ago

No, It's an African mine brat

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

With securities backed by wahabi terrorists.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

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

[-] SteefLem@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

Thought they got an automatic checkmark from elon

[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 13 points 9 months ago

Only the domestic ones.

[-] redfox@infosec.pub 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

When you want to ensure the hate and ethnic cleansing propaganda is authentic...

/s

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

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

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 6 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


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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[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

The mark just means you paid so idk why it matters

[-] bykdd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 9 months ago

like netanyahu and idf. all terrorists is over there,

this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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