A huge flurry of late recognition (better than never) has landed in the news. Elon Musk’s extremism, long documented on this blog and elsewhere including NPR, is finally being formally acknowledged by regulators.

You may recall Abu Hamza was successfully charged two decades ago in the UK with “intent to stir up racial hatred”. Now read this:

GIFCT’s 30 or so members have a shared database of current terror content that they collectively identify and automatically remove. It appears, though, that X is not contributing to the database or removing its terror content. Researchers at the CST were, within ten minutes, able to find on X propaganda videos from Hamas, Hizbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which are proscribed organisations.

Elon Musk is being called out as a publisher of terror content with intent to stir up racial hatred, NOT a platform owner.

Musk told advertisers to “Go F**k Yorself” and then threatened to sue them if they left him, indicating a dictator mentality completely divorced from accountability. Many now seem to be asking very loudly how soon he will face arrest and extradition.

The market simply isn’t strong enough to self-regulate such egregious criminal activity from a CEO.

In a WhatsApp messages seen by City A.M. between staff at one of the world’s largest ad buying agencies, one exec wrote: “[The lawsuit] coupled with Elon’s comments on recent riots… how any brand can even contemplate going near it is insanity.” Tait added: “Existing concerns that UK advertisers have about the platform are also likely to be increased by role X / Twitter is thought to have played in the unrest we’ve seen over the last week.”

The role Twitter played after it rebranded as a swastika? It was intent to stir up racial hatred, as we could see coming plainly for at least a year now if not three.

Nobody should want to be standing around or advertising at an Abu Hamza event, so surely they can’t be expected to have an account on Swastika aka X aka Twitter.

And as much as it’s impressive to see The Independent run a headline on how to delete a Twitter account, we already know it’s not nearly enough.

The time is approaching where we’ve got to all examine whether we should, en masse, withdraw from it and for there to be a different platform.

Germans prominently have been announcing their departure from Twitter, the Danish too… and even Australians, yet the UK seems to have ignored the threat far too long.

To be fair at the start of this year The Telegraph had raised a flag that Twitter was an intentional publisher of racist hate.

Yvette Cooper hits out at Elon Musk’s management of X. Shadow home secretary says social media company is being used to ‘promote anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hate’

And the BBC at the same time quoted Ani Aluko when she called Twitter a place where Elon Musk will “vomit hatred unchecked“.

The bottom line: even if everyone flees X, the largest hate rally in history, that alone won’t stop the incitement disinformation it’s spreading now, let alone prevent the predictable violent attacks that follow.

What would the UK have done if Abu Hamza had been in charge of Twitter?

Widespread disinformation campaigns are being spread by Indian social media accounts. They allege far greater threat to Hindu populations in Bangladesh than what is real, likely as a campaign to incite greater violence.

Anxieties are being further inflamed by the spread of false reports of attacks online suggesting the violence against Hindus is orders of magnitude worse than reality.

Many originated from social media users in India… One widely shared X post written in Hindi, India’s most common language, falsely claimed that over 500 Hindus had been killed, hundreds of Hindu women raped and dozens of temples burned to the ground.

Many of the more outlandish claims had also been picked up and reported as fact by Indian media, International Crisis Group’s Thomas Kean told AFP.

“Their reporting and analysis reflects a worldview that is quite out of touch with the reality on the ground,” he said.

xTwitter is again failing to properly handle the disinformation flows, which cause dangerous tension.

Many have seen the news of violent ethnic (white supremacist) riots in the UK, because of the Tesla CEO being one of the worst offenders, but few have exposed this similar xTwitter campaign in Bangladesh.

Estimates vary but here’s one credible assessment that alleges “resistence” forces have been murdering Rohingya refugees as they try to cross a border, with nearly half the victims women and children.

A 17-year-old Rohingya from Maungdaw who survived the artillery and drone attacks said that just after 6 p.m. Monday, he saw four drones flying from the southern part of Maungdaw toward the riverbank where about 1,000 Rohingya, including himself, were waiting for boats to cross into Bangladesh.

The man, speaking to the AP by phone Friday from Bangladesh on the condition of anonymity to protect his relatives remaining in Maungdaw, said he and other people jumped into the water as the drones dropped three bombs near where he and 12 of his family members had been standing.

Following the drone attack, about 20 artillery shells also hit the crowd, he said, and he estimated that about 150 people, including children and women, were killed in total, and many others wounded.

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Both men said they believed the Arakan Army was responsible for the attacks, which came from the direction of the group’s encampment south of Maungdaw and resembled drone attacks the group has been making daily on the town itself, which is still held by troops of the military government. The Arakan Army also has a reputation for hostility toward the Rohingya community.

The drones have been a “resistence” signature attack method for several years now, after Myanmar’s 2021 coup.

“The use of drones has created a tectonic shift in Myanmar’s battlefield,” said Angshuman Choudhury, an associate fellow at Delhi-based thinktank Centre for Policy Research. “They have not completely closed the tactical asymmetry between the military and resistance forces, but have diminished it significantly.”

The rapid increase of militarized use of drones within Mayanmar is generally linked to influence of China and the US, specifically events like this a decade ago.

“Our plan was to use an unmanned aircraft to carry 20 kilogrammes of TNT to bomb the area,” said Liu in an interview carried in the Beijing newspaper Global Times on Monday. “The plan was rejected, because the order was to catch him alive.”

It was the first time any Chinese official has spoken openly of the development of drones by the country. So far, only the US, Britain and Israel have used unmanned aircraft on lethal operations outside their own borders.

The Myanmar government military by 2016 operated Chinese armed CH3 drones and by 2020 they were accused of attacks on the Arkan Army. The 2021 military coup, however, flipped everything and “resistence” forces flooded the country with drone warfare.

Both sides denied any responsibility for the drones used in this attack. The UN earlier documented evidence that would suggest the Arkan Army is to blame here again.

The United Nations said it had collected witness testimonies about the killings of Rohingya civilians and the systematic torching of homes. It indicated that these crimes started after the Myanmar military withdrew from these townships and the rebel Arakan Army (AA) advanced.

Here’s yet another case, similar to a “veered” defect reported since 2018, where a Tesla abruptly leaves the road and hits a pole or tree.

At about 8:25 p.m. Saturday, Sebastopol authorities received multiple reports of a car crashing in a field along High School Road north of Gaye Road, deRutte said.

“Callers also stated that the vehicle caught fire immediately after crashing, with a driver possibly still inside,” according to a posting on the Sebastopol Police Department’s official Facebook page.

The Tesla had gone off the road before striking a tree and coming to a stop in the surrounding field, deRutte said.

Notable are the hazmat scene from a chemical cluster munition exploding, a huge emergency response seriously taxing at least four communities, and exposed civilians nearby who helpied the kamikaze pilot to escape and survive.

By the time emergency personnel arrived, members of the public had helped the driver, the car’s sole occupant, get out of the vehicle, police said.

The Sebastopol Fire Department, Gold Ridge Fire District, Rancho Adobe Fire District and Graton Fire Department assisted with putting out the blaze, which was fueled by a series of explosions that were attributed to the Tesla…