ARTICLE: Twitter has become hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. UPDATE: A cac got fired from Jp Morgan

[Loose]

Under owner Elon Musk, the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has become a hotbed of white supremacist and neo-Nazi content. A recent headline in the Atlantic doesn’t mince words: “X is a white supremacist site.”

Musk has allowed formerly banned far-right and neo-Nazi accounts back on the platform, and, in some instances, he’s directly responded to accounts that traffic in white supremacist and neo-Nazi rhetoric. Meanwhile, anonymous accounts that regularly promote racial hate on the platform have seen their follower counts grow substantially as Musk has taken a more hands-off approach to moderation compared to the social media network’s prior owners.

Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms. With such ideas spreading rapidly on X, the Texas Observer has identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that regularly share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content on the platform. Three of the operators appear to live or have claimed to own property in Texas, where X moderation operations are based and Musk resides.

Through reviewing posts on X, web archives, leak databases, and other social media profiles, the Observer identified the following individuals as the anonymous operators of neo-Nazi X accounts, which had a collective 500,000 followers at their peak: Cyan Cruz, a 40-year-old marketing professional who appears to have lived in Austin and Amarillo and operates the X account TheOfficial1984; Michael Gramer, a 42-year-old retired mechanical engineer who has lived in New Hampshire, operates the X account 9mm_SMG, and has claimed to have a house in Galveston and to be spending time in Dallas; Robert “Bobby” Thorne, a 35-year-old vice president at JP Morgan Chase in Plano, who operates the account Noble1945 and previously operated the account Noble_x_x_; and John Anthony Provenzano, a 30-year-old who appears to live in Virginia, operates the account utism_ (formerly known as JohnnyBullzeye), and, according to a tip and a records request response from the U.S. Navy, works at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Maryland—where the Navy manufactures explosive ordnance.

Lets hope blue sky takes off

 

[MostReal]

he's from South African Apartheid, what do you expect?

 

[Seoul Gleou]

This is shocking. I can't believe a Boer CAC would let racist content on a platform he owns

 

[Macallik86]

I think that those who stay on the platform will be fed a diet of conspiracies and "I'm just asking questions" hot takes until they become indoctrinated.

That's why I've changed my sig even tho I don't even use social media like that

 

[im not you]

cyan cruz huh

 

[VertigoKnight]

Lol, they're late.

He has been doing this for a while.

He also amplifies it by interacting with this filth.

I see a lot of 'brehs' share these kinda accounts on here. I swear before you post something on here go to the X account and I guarantee they don't even hide they are WN with their takes.

So why are we posting them on here?

 

[get these nets]

fukk twitter

 

[levitate]

Good to see they named names.

 

[MVike28]

that place has gone to absolute shyt

 

[Biblical Goon]

Y’all still on there tho, in bed with them racist cacs. Couldn’t be me

 

[Mandarin Duck]

The Coli has this weird thing were groups of posters immediately come in to Elon/Trump threads and do everything they can to either change the conversation or downplay what they do.

Pre-Trump, I didn't see such aggressive push back towards Republican criticism on here.

 

[Micky Mikey]

What's the solution to this?

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Dog

When I was in Arizona my Uber had a Tesla and I saw like 20 different Teslas in the span of a weekend. That is not an exaggeration. I saw more Teslas than any model car. Back home you see nikkax with the Robocop trucks.

This is a classic case of if you build it they will come morality be damned smh

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Y’all still on there tho, in bed with them racist cacs. Couldn’t be me

“IM gOoNA gEt tHeSE JoKeS oF!” -some unfunny fruit

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

What's the solution to this?

Other than leaving the platform, nothing.

Twitter is still the most convenient way to view and share personal views, current news, updates, and articles on every topic.



He’s not going to sell it, because it’s not about the money for him, it’s about the power.