The Off Topic Topic

[Sheilbh]

I think some of it seems to be IP address derived as well.

On the trusting X and their systems now - yes in relation to the blue ticks. My understanding is that users are not anonymous to Twitter if they have blue ticks and are getting money for their content. I've mentioned before that X is repeatedly rolling over on identifying people following law enforcement requests (it's happened a lot in Turkey and also in the UK following the Southport riots) so I think they must have reasonable data on this (at least for verified accounts).

In the UK with Southport the interesting thing was that a lot of the far-right verified accounts (that were British) were probabl verified because they loved what Musk was doing with the platform, but what he was also doing was gutting their legal team and not fighting any disclosure requests. So his biggest fans were providing him with the data that could be used to prosecute them. He vocally complained about it but it feels very "thoughts and prayers" when it's his company unmasking people for the police.

[Legbiter]

And all day I've seen lots of far-right content creators ("Yookay aesthetics" etc) verified accounts earning money for the engagement on their content that appear to be based in India or South America

Yeah seems half the traffic on twitter is thirdies posting ragebait for the elonbux. The big pro-Z/russia accounts are mostly based out of the subcontinent.

This one is my current favorite.

[Josquius]

It really shows just how dumb the far rights views are that some guy from a village in Uttar Pradesh who wouldn't pass a primary school English exam can recreate them so well.

I think some of it seems to be IP address derived as well.

On the trusting X and their systems now - yes in relation to the blue ticks. My understanding is that users are not anonymous to Twitter if they have blue ticks and are getting money for their content. I've mentioned before that X is repeatedly rolling over on identifying people following law enforcement requests (it's happened a lot in Turkey and also in the UK following the Southport riots) so I think they must have reasonable data on this (at least for verified accounts).

In the UK with Southport the interesting thing was that a lot of the far-right verified accounts (that were British) were probabl verified because they loved what Musk was doing with the platform, but what he was also doing was gutting their legal team and not fighting any disclosure requests. So his biggest fans were providing him with the data that could be used to prosecute them. He vocally complained about it but it feels very "thoughts and prayers" when it's his company unmasking people for the police.

That's odd. I follow Sunder Katwala and he's got an ongoing thing about the amount of racist hate messages he gets and vichy doing fuck all about it.

[Sheilbh]

Oh they're not moderating.

But if law enforcement turn up they're not putting up any resistance whatsoever - whereas Twitter did used to fight.