X is easiest platform to find Hamas, Hazbollah videos and antisemitism

The X platform, formerly known as Twitter, is now the easiest social media platform to find Hamas videos, The Sunday Times reported, citing the Community Security Trust (CST), a charity that combats extremism and antisemitism. It said within 10 minutes CST researchers were able to find on X propaganda videos from UK government-proscribed terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. According to The Sunday Times a statement in the GIFCT's independent advisory committee annual 2023 report expressing concern over online trust and safety was directed at X. The advisory body said it had become "increasingly concerned by significant reductions in online trust and safety capabilities for certain platforms, and a perceived decrease in the priority of the issue, negatively impacting companies' ability to moderate extremist content online." The Sunday Times said Elon Musk had let banned extremists back on to X, allowed anyone to pay for a verification mark and sacked a large part of its content moderation team, as part of the billionaire's strategy of turning X into a "free speech" platform.