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Nick Martin
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Angelo John Gage, a neo-Nazi who recently started using the name "Lucas Gage" and whose Twitter feed is a constant stream of antisemitism and racism, says he received his first payment through the platform's revenue sharing system.

It's was $165.52 — not much, obviously. But it's also not nothing.

Elon Musk has not only welcomed Nazis. He's now directly paying them too.

Screenshot of a tweet posted one day ago by a user whose display name is "Lucas Gage" and handle is "Lucas_Gage_." His profile picture is a black and white photo of a bald white man in a black T-shirt, standing in front of a wall with his arms folded. The tweet reads: "Finally got paid for dropping red pills and triggering people." It includes a screenshot of an email from Twitter, with it's new X logo at the top. The email reads: "Hey @Lucas_Gage_, $165.52 has been deposited into your account from X Ads Revenue Sharing. Thank you for creating on X. X Monetization" Statistics at the bottom of the tweet show it has 36 replies, 32 reposts, 651 likes, and has been viewed 17,000 times.

In a post on the site, renamed X, Musk said: “The sad truth is that there are no great ‘social networks’ right now.”

He added: “We may fail, as so many have predicted, but we will try our best to make there be at least one.”

X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, will now require X Blue users to submit a selfie alongside a photo of a government-issued ID, according to a report by PC Magazine.

The user’s personal information required by the verification process will be handled by Israeli company AU10TIX software which will store the information for up to 30 days.
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Many X users were unhappy with the choice of the company to store user data, pointing out its employees’ links to Israeli intelligence. Others expressed their discomfort with giving a company their data when so many data breaches have been reported in the past.

Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 8:06 am

He could have the whole mess gone by Xmas.

Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 8:06 am Trust issues?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/2 ... re-company

He could have the whole mess gone by Xmas.

pipbarber wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 7:47 am https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023 ... hadow-rule

Long New Yorker article by Ronan Farrow here. I got about half way through, Musk seems to have inserted himself into the running of the US government as a type of unelected official and, according to the article, appears to be on good personal terms with Putin.

He's pox on society, that's what comes through in the first half of the piece, i'm sure the second half is much of the same.

Elon Musk’s allegedly “escalated” use of the drug ketamine could explain his penchant for erratic decision-making at X and his other companies, according to a New Yorker exposé about the billionaire.

The Tesla CEO was scrutinized in a lengthy, year-long report by journalist Ronan Farrow, who cited “associates” who have reportedly “connected his erratic behavior to efforts to self-medicate.”

“Associates suggested that Musk’s use has escalated in recent years, and that the drug, alongside his isolation and his increasingly embattled relationship with the press, might contribute to his tendency to make chaotic and impulsive statements and decisions,” Farrow wrote in the article.