It is said that Elon Musk X takes money from members of the terrorist groups

When it is Buy Twitter In 2022, Elon Mousse knew that he wanted the site to accept people from all different backgrounds. “Our platform must be warm and wicked with everyone,” billionaire He said, at that time. Now, two years later, Musk seems to have made this promise. Twitter (Now It was renamed “x”It is a place where all of them are actually welcomed-apparently, the terrorist groups approved by the state in which the United States currently operates.

in a report The technological transparency group published on Thursday was published, indicating that officials and militants who have many Islamic extremist groups, including Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and other armed groups from Iraq and Syria, continued to participate in the distinguished X accounts. Participation in 8 dollars per month allows terrorist leaders and their affiliated companies to issue messages from the “blue selection mark” accounts, and also provides a priority for their contents. X website Note that Distinguished subscribers will receive a set of benefits that ordinary users do not make.

This is the second time that the group has warned that X accepts the terrorists. A A similar report It was released in February 2024, warning that Hezbollah and other approved groups were active on the platform. After publishing this report, X cleared some accounts, but according to TTP, just one month after, many individuals seemed to crawled to the site.

It is unclear why X has many clear terrorist groups active on its website, although it is worth noting that Musk has It was not known to give priority Moderate content or user examination. Outside just being a truly bad look at the social media platform, X -reported transactions with these groups appear to be illegal. The TTP report is noted: “The regulations imposed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Ministry of Treasury (OFAC) prevent American companies from engaging in transactions with individuals or entities that are punished unless licensed or approved by the government.”

The spread of the Houthi accounts reported on the platform is especially ridiculous, given the recent Trump administration’s focus on combating the terrorist group. The report indicates that “the accounts of a number of Houthi officials use X for messages and advertising.” These accounts include people like Mahdi Al -ShahatChairman of the Supreme Political Council of the Houthis, who, According to the US Treasury“I worked to increase cooperation between the Houthis and the government of Russia, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.”

When clicking on some of these accounts, Gizmodo can check that many of them are still active. For example, when I visited what appears to be an account Subhe TobieOne of the founders of Hezbollah, X encouraged me useful to verify the same. When clicking through the TUFAYLI account, you can see an endless flow of high -resolution videos in which the Islamic leader criticizes Israel and speaks against atrocities in Gaza. Gizmodo has reached X for more information but did not receive a response.

A warning is provided for the report before New York TimesAnd who notes that due to the lack of X of identity verification mechanisms, it is unclear whether some of the accounts discovered by TTP “belong to Deversonors”.

Houthi groups continued in northern Yemen Take action against Israel Above Activities in Gaza. Since Trump took office to the United States The bombing of Yemen Often, in a clear effort to disable the group. In March, the new Defense Minister of the Pentagon, Beit Higseth, Details of a text message by mistake Regarding one of these bombing tasks of the editor of a magazine, in what became known as “” “Signalgate“During a different episode, a 60 million dollars aircraft retreated from the aircraft carrier In the ocean, when the ship made dribbling movements to avoid the Houthi fire.