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1. Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 06:07:25 JST Ars Technica

   Musk’s X sold checkmarks to Hezbollah and other terrorist groups, report says

   X (aka Twitter) accused of violating sanctions by taking payment from terrorists.

   https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/musks-x-sold-checkmarks-to-hezbollah-and-other-terrorist-groups-report-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

   • donato27 (donato27@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 06:30:54 JST donato27

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     @arstechnica terroristas terroristas? Los nazionistas

   • lachlan but less spooky (lachlan@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 08:02:42 JST lachlan but less spooky

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     @arstechnica What a knob

   • pielmast (pielmast@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 09:10:03 JST pielmast

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     @arstechnica I mean he also sold it to Klan members as well, so its kind of on brand here

   • Animal Spirits (animalspirits@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 10:44:41 JST Animal Spirits

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     @arstechnica who could've predicted this when Musk started selling authenticity? Oh right. It was everyone

   • Ed Peters (liberaled@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 11:39:34 JST Ed Peters

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     @arstechnica

     Musk: Are they really any worse than the Jew-hating nazis I already welcomed and monetized?

     <strikes pose>

   • Khannea (khannea@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 17:55:37 JST Khannea

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     @arstechnica Let us discuss prison sentences for certain corporate crimes.

   • Kyle Niemeyer (kyleniemeyer@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 23:27:49 JST Kyle Niemeyer

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     Not the point of the article, but "... X, the Elon Musk-owned social network that still resides at the twitter.com domain.” may be my favorite “X, the site formerly known as Twitter" variant