Campaigners at the Tech Transparency Project in the US found paid-for features for organisations.

Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, granted subscription perks to designated terrorist groups and others barred from operating in the US, according to campaigners.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          I’m not so sure. It solves a lot of issues, though they don’t effect the vast majority of us. It’d be great as a nationally operated utility for military purposes to more easily provide internet access and communication to navy vassels as well as operations near the poles. It’s also useful for very remote areas or mobile living. As a company operated for profit, sure I doubt it’ll survive if militaries don’t trust it, which I wouldn’t. As a utility operated for the sake of the utility it provides, it’s useful.

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
    221·
    10 months ago

    Twitter is burning money and struggling with getting advertisers, and “subscribers” are barely keeping them afloat. Of course they need to accept money where ever it comes from. Why is this a surprise?

    • daed@sh.itjust.works
      124·
      10 months ago

      That’s how a subscription works, people pay money for benefits. Not surprised that X isn’t looking into paying accounts since they are short staffed (AFAIK) and low on money. No surprise at all, clickbait title here.

      • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
        14·
        10 months ago

        Just because they might not have the capabilities to due this sort of dilligence, doesnt mean it wouldnt be news.

        If they do business with entities that are under US sanctions, they are breaking the law and need to face consequences.

        That they self inflicted their inability to abide by the law does not excuse it. Instead it makes it worse.

      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
        6·
        10 months ago

        Blue checks can also receive payment based on engagement from other blue checks, though. Doesn’t seem to be implied in the article that this happened, but it’s a consideration.

      • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        They are not terrorists, just utter garbage and waste of organic matter. We should recycle them in factories or something before they start bombing other countries in the name of their delusions. 🧐🧐🧐 /S

    • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
      15·
      10 months ago

      SpaceX and Tesla both got US government grants, why is no one talkibg bout that group of terrorists?

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 months ago

    And if I understood correctly, they only take away the blue checkmark, and don’t close the accounts?

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
    3·
    10 months ago

    I never even think about taking money from terrorists as a problem. Guess most social media organizations aren’t so hard up for cash or short staffed.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
      341·
      10 months ago

      Care to elaborate on that?

      I’m an instance admin, and I haven’t taken money from anyone to fund my stack (let alone terrorists).

      Most Lemmy instances are run by volunteers, many as personal projects. The few big instances typically accept donations and often provide financial summaries (Beehaw definitely does, and I think LW does something similar?)

      • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
        370·
        10 months ago

        Sure. The swarm of terrorist sympathizers is well known on these pages. Which is fine, but you can’t respond to them without a mod making up an excuse to ban you from a community. You either conform to their thinking or get the hook. They are a powerful lobby. Not the same in other chat boards. Does money change hands? Don’t know, but it’s as if it does. If you haven’t taken money, perhaps some is owed to you.

        • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
          52·
          10 months ago

          From the modlog, it shows that you recently posted comments containing ethnic slurs and were just being completely uncivil in the other (the original comments are all visible in the modlog). Further back, several comments were removed for being hostile. It was only after all that you got a 3 day ban which is basically a slap on the wrist.

          That’s hardly “conform or get the hook”.

          • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
            148·
            10 months ago

            I’ll gladly compare past writings and discuss them. But, understand that a mod has to say something to justify their position and they won’t move off that no matter how ridicules it seems. In this case I referred to Jihad Janes. There is nothing ethnic about that and it’s certainly not a slur. Jihad is a spiritual struggle. Anyway, it was enough for the mod.

            • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              17·
              10 months ago

              That’s factually not true. A mod can ban you because they don’t like creeks (as in your name) and it would be perfectly valid. Not saying i agree with it, just that they can without having to justify themselves.

        • r00ty@kbin.life
          15·
          10 months ago

          Make your own community, with blackjack and hookers if you want? If the instance doesn’t let you, make it somewhere else or make your own instance. That’s the beauty of the fediverse.

          Generally, you need to be really bad to get de-federated from most instances.

      • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
        219·
        10 months ago

        The problem is you can’t have a differing opinion without runn8ng headlong into a mod.