The Tech Transparency Project, (TTP), has accused Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, of granting subscription perks to designated terrorist groups and others barred from operating in the United States.
The Tech Transparency Project found X had granted blue check marks to accounts tied to Hezbollah members, among others for 8 dollars a month, a tick which allows longer posts and better promotion. Now that the system is paid, however, “X may be raising new legal issues.
Posting on X, the firm’s team in charge of safety wrote that its subscription process was “adhering to legal obligations”, and was independently screened by X’s payment providers. X removed some ticks after the report, saying its security was “robust”
“The U.S. imposes sanctions on individuals, groups, and countries deemed to be a threat to national security. Elon Musk’s X appears to be selling premium service to some of them”, the TTP wrote in its report.
“A blue checkmark account that bears the name and profile image of Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah, also indicates it is ‘ID verified’, a service that X offers to premium subscribers as a way to prevent impersonation. X requires users to submit a government-issued ID and a selfie to get verified in this way, though it is unclear if Nasrallah did so”, it added.
The Director of the TTP Katie Paul told the New York Times that it was a sign that X had “lost control of its platform”, adding that X had removed the ticks from the accounts it had identified after its report was published.
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