Ryan Mac 🙃: X is allowing US-designated terrorist groups and leaders to buy check marks, a possible sanctions violation. Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, has one and is listed by X as having his ID verified, meaning he provided a government-issued ID to the company. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/t...

X is allowing US-designated terrorist groups and leaders to buy check marks, a possible sanctions violation. Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, has one and is listed by X as having his ID verified, meaning he provided a government-issued ID to the company. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/t...

Terrorists Are Paying for Check Marks on X, Report Sayswww.nytimes.com The report shows that X has accepted payments for subscriptions from entities barred from doing business in the United States, a potential violation of sanctions.

X is removing the check marks as we speak, including the one for the Hezbollah leader's account. Meanwhile, Musk is making trans jokes about it.

Strange response from X which claims that some of the terrorist related accounts that had blue check marks were not “receiving any services that would be subject to sanctions.” But they aren’t disputing that these accounts paid for the checks, which would be a violation of sanctions law.

Well, if they didn’t pay, guess was a gift from him

"Yes, they're paying us $8/month, but let's be real -- just like the rest of you, they're not getting anything of value for that. So all we're doing is making terrorists poorer, which is Good Actually."

As a student of mine put it, “If Musk is going to keep deadnaming his own child, we’ll keep calling it Twitter”

No one calls it X. Just today, an NPR show host, without hesitating or correcting themselves, called it Twitter.

It's like when I was 5 or 6 and I insisted my parents call me Mario

Ok Brian

It's-a me, Brian

My favorite passive aggressive comment is when people refer to them as "Tweets on X"

At bbest you get "X, formerly Twitter"

C'mon now. Everybody knows that platform is now known as "Xitter" (pronounced with the pinyin "X", like a "sh") Posting there is now "Taking a Xit" Bluechecked users are now "Xittheads"

Still trying to get King-sempai to notice him, I see

He's so cringeingly desperate.

I hate that fucking prick

Seconded x100

I wish people who know how awful Musk and Twitter is would stop using Twitter because that engagement, regardless of the nature, helps Musk.

Government, officials, the fucking White House for a start, plus all the news organizations and journalists that expect to remain credible for long... But we see you still over there.

Christ what an asshole.

My task bar still says "twitter.com"

I’m not an SEO expert but I cannot imagine that a company being a single character is good for search ranking.

It’s even better: The logo they used is from a public font so they can’t even copyright or trademark it

I keep seeing people posts links to tweets that use x.com but still don't understand those come from? It always redirects to twitter.com.

When you share a tweet from the app, it automatically uses the x.com URL for the permalink.

Ah ok, I haven't updated the app since Elmo bought it for reasons like this.

Why the heck is that dude so obsessed with trying to make Stephen King like him, and still fucking it up so badly?

He's only heard of two authors, and the other one gargled a bullet in 1945.

I kinda respect his commitment to not landing even a single joke, ever.

(best example of why billionaires shouldn’t exist)The world’s richest man is a cartoon beaver chewing on a metal hanger making an abortion joke while complaining about pollution and climate change ironically w/😂 emojis. Musk be exhausting trying to be the most cowabunga cool billionaire.

The Most Tedious Man In The World

And to think that's true in a world with Nate Silver in it.

Sigh. I've lost more than one friend over "The Nate Silver Debate". I kept pointing out issues re: his approach/analysis, but couldn't get folks over their "but HE'S SMART" bias.

He learned how to do Monte Carlo simulations at U Chicago but does not appear to have learned much else. That was good enough to get him some early success in sports and election prediction but he is very good at being wrong about almost everything else.

At least someone thinks he's smart...

The best name for it is "Xitter". When pronouncing think of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

I prefer TwitX, because it's run by a twit.

Yup, with the "pinyin" X (pronounced as "sh). Posting there is now "Taking a Xit" Bluechecked users are "Xittheads"

🤣🤣🤣 > Bluechecked users are "Xittheads"

Only Elon fanboy asskissers call it X. It's still Twitter. And he can fuck off.

Not legally allowed to say what I think should happen to Elon

I mean, last I checked, the urls for all those tweets still resolve to twitter.com He should focus more on getting his house in order and less on shit posting perhaps.

Parts of the site still refer to itself and its team as Twitter too he’s so stupid

Get with the program, Steve. That platform is known as "Xitter" now ("X" pronounced in the pinyin style, with a "sh" sound) So, posting there is now "Taking a Xit" Bluechecked users are "Xittheads" Doomscrolling there is now being "Deep in the Xitter"

Elon has a trans daughter btw who publicly disowned him (gee I wonder why!)

Elon changed the name to 'X' because his target demographic can't spell 'Twitter'. Prove me wrong.

Cooked his ass

If Musk really wanted to fight climate change he’d sell his Tesla stock and plow the money into finding a way to convert Divorced Dad Energy into kilowatts.

he's doing their one joke.

Replace "meanwhile" with "that's why", it'll make it accurate.