Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
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Yemen weapons dealers selling machine guns on X
The traders operate in the capital Sana’a and other areas under control of the Houthis.
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An investigation by The Times newspaper found that several of the Yemeni accounts bore the blue tick of verification.
Both The Times and the BBC have approached X for comment, but have not so far received any response.
Most of the platform’s content moderators were laid off after the new owner Elon Musk bought the company in 2022.
This is great isnt it ? Musks version of "free speech" is likely to see these guns used in all sorts of mischief.
Off course the richest man in the world sacked the people who would prevent this. It doesnt look like a good idea now.
This is what happens when you let an unstable man own a major network. Fake interviews with a president sitting next to ads foe Kalashnikovs,
What a world we live in.