Elon Musk’s X Will Give Blue Checks to Anyone, Even Terrorist Leaders | Leaders of Hezbollah, and other sanctioned groups, paid for premium features on Elon Musk’s ‘free speech’ platform.::Leaders of Hezbollah, and other sanctioned groups, paid for premium features on Elon Musk’s ‘free speech’ platform.
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Elon Musk’s “free speech” app, X, will give a platform to almost anyone, and that includes the leaders of terrorist groups.
Several leaders of Hezbollah, a designated terrorist group by the United States, are X Premium customers receiving paid services such as verification, boosted content, and longer posts, according to an investigation from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) on Wednesday.
X, formerly Twitter, provided premium services to accounts belonging to Hezbollah’s leaders, as well as Iran-backed militants, Houthi Rebels, and Russian state media, according to the investigation.
Iranian state media, Press TV, was identified as having a gold check mark in the Tech Transparency Project’s investigation.
The incident is reminiscent of Media Matter’s investigation into X, which found anti-semitic content appearing next to Disney, IBM, and Apple’s ads.
X says some accounts listed by the Tech Transparency Project “may have visible check marks without receiving any services that would be subject to sanctions.”
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