X accused of taking payments from terrorists
X accused of taking payments from terrorists
Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, granted subscription perks to designated terrorist groups and others barred from operating in the US, according to campaigners.
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?
Unfortunately, whether your business is failing or not, it still has to follow applicable laws.
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.
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.
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.
Taking money from Israel, i see? /S
Why the /s?
So they aren't a terrorist government? Because they do seem to like to terrorise innocent civilians
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
Were they taking money from the CIA?
SpaceX and Tesla both got US government grants, why is no one talkibg bout that group of terrorists?
And if I understood correctly, they only take away the blue checkmark, and don't close the accounts?
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.
Well, as long as they're taking money away from the terrorists. /s
Lemmy isn't much better.
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?)
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.
The problem is you can't have a differing opinion without runn8ng headlong into a mod.
Cancel this idiot's government contracts and prosecute him.
Nationalize Starlink while you're at it.
Nationalize all of his assets and deport his ass back to South Africa
Starlink is not feeseable long term, let Musk keep that POS
What? That only happens to the poors...