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Saudi Arabia is of course Twitter's second largest shareholder. But Twitter is also owned by Russian oligarchs linked to Putin himself. https://www.dw.com/en/
by chipdart 2y ago
Saudi Arabia is of course Twitter's second largest shareholder.
But Twitter is also owned by Russian oligarchs linked to Putin himself.
https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-xs-alleged-ties-to-russian-oligarchs-mean-for-musk/a-70088598 https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-xs-alleged-ties-to-russian-oli...
We're talking about Elon Musk's Twitter, who around the time of Russia's invasion of Ukraine was found to have hardcoded censorship of pro-ukraine content as well as users who posted pro-Ukraine content on Twitter.
- petre 2y agoThis is just speculation. I see videos from Ukraine sticking it to the Russians like every other day from Twitter, shared with the news. Also from Telegram channels. The most recent one was with a downed Su-25. Here: https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1828661567094984774 https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1828661567094984774
- chipdart 2y ago> This is just speculation. This is not speculation. When Elon Musk did that stunt on open-sourcing Twitter's source code right after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the source code explicitly included references to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in hardcoded rules to downrank discussions on the topic. https://gizmodo.com/twitter-musk-ukraine-crisis-open-source-code-russia-1850293386 https://gizmodo.com/twitter-musk-ukraine-crisis-open-source-... This is just the stuff he accidentally leaked.
- signatoremo 2y agoThe majority of pro-Ukraine content used by journalists are on Twitter. Has always been the case since the very beginning of the war. Take a look at any article on TWZ, like the most recent one: https://www.twz.com/news-features/ukraine-pushing-slowly-west-in-russia-towards-key-kursk-city https://www.twz.com/news-features/ukraine-pushing-slowly-wes...