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Saudi Arabia and Its Footprint in X/Twitter

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 12, 2024,
updated Sep 12, 2024

Black and white greyscale line drawing of the Mecca in Saudi Arabia

This is an actual X/Twitter account:

Islam_kill_americans9w9s9d8x8xx7c7c6yf

And this is what happened when our folks reported it:

An example of more terrorism on Twitter

For more context see: Islamic State Supporters on Twitter: How is ‘New’ Twitter Handling an Old Problem?

From 2016: Twitter suspends 125,000 'terrorism' accounts

That's under old management. Some years ago it was openly reported in the media that a massive proportion of pro-ISIS accounts in Twitter were operated from Saudi Arabia or by Saudi Arabians (just like in 9/11). It's no longer easy to find press reports about it, but here's a copy of a PDF that describes the problem.

...Saudi Arabia via every means possible. One of the medium through which ISIS targets Saudi Arabia...

Remember that Saudi Arabia is a top shareholder of Twitter and X. Do people still want to contribute to such social control 'media'?

It's rather strange all the articles about the above (1,500 or 15,000 pro-ISIS accounts from KSA, based on memory; far more than many other nations combined) just gradually vanished (I simply cannot find them anymore; I've tried hard), but the other weird thing is, in KSA they put you in prison or kill you for opposing the regime, but not ISIS.

Also see: Twitter removes 5,929 Saudi accounts it deems to be state-backed (2019)

Saudi Arabia sentences US citizen to 16 years over tweets critical of regime

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