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Verified Hate Speech Accounts [on X] Are Pivoting to Palestine for Clout and Cash (www.rollingstone.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Highlights: [P]aid clout-chasers on X, formerly Twitter, are using the conflict to boost their profiles — and a few who have successfully pivoted to pro-Palestine content were formerly known for hate speech, extremism, and conspiracy theories.

Other verified accounts that have quickly increased in size over the past several weeks by focusing on the suffering of Palestinians, but previously displayed a pattern of transphobic and LGBTQ comments, include former UFC and MMA fighter Jake Shields, banned YouTuber Ryan Dawson, and an anonymous “anti-woke” account called “Lord Bebo.”

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Here on Lemmy it's the worldnews community that's become a hate group on this topic. Probably a lot of the X accounts are from that crew.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol I got banned from one of the world news communities for "genocide denial" for pointing out that Biden might be reasonable for doubting the exact death toll numbers coming out of Gaza's government in that we should be reasonably skeptical of the claims from both sides of this war since they're both demonstrably willing to lie to shift blame.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, their admins are an abomination.

I've watched them remove multiple stories where the Palestinian PM refused to condem hamas and the attack on the 7th but constantly allowed MBFC debunked sources (against their own rules) as long as it's antisemtic

And you didn't get banned from it. They saved you from engaging with them. Plus, now we know Lemmy worldnews isn't an alternative to anything except maybe Stormfront.