I did not have “terrorist enabler” on my Elon Musk Bingo card. But it turns out we can add that to his resumé of ruining Twitter, running Tesla into the ground and sabotaging the U.S. government for the sake of cramming his oligarchy and extremist, racist views down Americans’ throats.
According to new reporting, Musk’s social media company has been doing business with and giving perks to more than 200 groups associated with terrorists and other sanctioned groups for more than a year after it was warned about what was going on.
Via The New York Times:
The report, by the Tech Transparency Project, a nonprofit focused on accountability for large technology companies, said X had continued to take payments from accounts that appeared to be affiliated with Hezbollah leaders, Houthi officials, and militia leaders in Syria and Iraq. The subscriptions, which cost $8 a month, offer users a blue check mark — once limited to notable users like celebrities — and come with perks. Those include more prominent placement in X’s algorithm, the ability to edit posts and the option to share longer videos.
