🚨Important thread highlights how X under Musk is putting people at risk
1) This account impersonating a man who helped stop a knife attack in London is still live, & has accumulated well over 1 million impressions.
2) It's history indicates it is a pro-Putin "bot" connected
possibly to Pakistan. However, it also has pro-Ismail Haniyeh & Hamas content
3) Regardless of what you think of Hamas, this is far right rocket fuel. Tommy Robinson already tweeted out the fake account, wrongly accusing him of supporting an "islamist genocidal regime"
4) Despite Musk claiming he would clamp down on impersonator accounts this account has not been suspended yet. This is happening amidst a wave of anti -immigrant and anti-muslim violence in the UK.
5)It was also retweeted (and deleted)
by UK's No. 1 hate entrepreneur. Robinson's argument is basically "even good Muslims are bad Muslims". His tweet also endangers the real Abdullah, and certainly does little to abate current tensions in the UK. Robinson was fined for doing something similar to a Syrian refugee
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🧵🚨This account @abdullahfromuk is impersonating a man who stopped a knife attack in London's Leicester Square. His original account handle was ZartashaPti and he has been tweeting pro-Imran Khan content in Urdu and English for most of his account history.
It has also tweeted content that would suggest it's pro-Vladimir Putin (although not in any particularly sophisticated way). The account is in the process of deleting its tweets, and it looks like a classic sockpuppet farm, for-hire type account.
@jneill has already highlighted some other content from the account, which again includes some Putin apologism
🧵🚨New analysis showing ALL tweets mentioning both "Muslim" & "UK" with over 500 retweets since 29 Jul. Graph shows which accounts got most impressions over time. Red/pink dots show anti-Muslim &/or anti-immigrant tweets, brown=neutral, green=tweets defending Muslims #UKRiots
2/ I grouped the tweets into the following three categories, 'anti', 'in defense of', and 'neutral'. Sadly the impressions gained by the number of 'anti' tweets was over 155 million (65%) while those 'in defense of' around 31 million. Neutral tweets were about 50 million.
3/ Parsing them finer we see that that the majority of the tweets were anti-Muslim, with half as many being both anti immigrant and both anti-Muslim. Some were solely anti-immigrant. #UKRiots
🧵🚨1/Somewhat depressing graph. I calculated whether all X posts with over 500 retweets mentioning the words "Muslim" and "UK" sent since 29th July were anti-muslim, anti-immigrant (red), neutral (blue), or in defense of muslims and/or immigration (green). #Ukriots #hatespeech
2/ I grouped the tweets into the following three categories, 'anti', 'in defense of', and 'neutral'. Sadly, the impressions gained by the number of 'Anti' tweets was over 159 million (67%), while those in defense of around 28 million. Neutral tweets were about 50 million
3/ Some of the most xenophobic and anti-muslim accounts include. @radiogenoa @goldingbf @tpointuk @jimfergusonuk @ashleasimonbf @europeinvasionn The degree of hate varies, from outright conspiracy theories, to suggestions that Muslims enjoy special treatment by the police.
🧵🚨I wanted to do another thread on the account @EuropeInvasionn. It's been one of the most widely viewed anti-immigrant & anti-muslim disinfluencers on X since the #Southport murders. Read more to learn about its shocking reach, disinformation, & hate speech #UKRiots
2/ Reminder. @Europeinvasionn is engaged in deception. We can tell this because it's a hijacked account. The account was created in 2010, but hacked/sold & scrubbed & has only tweeted since Feb 24. It's previous handle was makcanerkripto. Note the 'crypto' red flag...
3/ First up. Impressions. Since 27th July, the account has racked up over 133,475,023 impressions. To put that in words, that's one hundred thirty-three million four hundred seventy-five thousand and twenty-three. That is phenomenal.
PSA: I wasn't going to indulge this but thought it was an opportunity for some important media literacy. @Artemisfornow - who is the first person documented to use the fake name 'Ali Al Shakati' to describe the #Southport killer, is claiming she copied the post from FB
2/ She is claiming a post on Facebook posted at 11.26 used the name Ali Al Shakati, before she posted it on X. Bernie posted her original tweet at 4.49 UK time. However, the Facebook post she mentions was sent at 7.26 UK time. So why the 11.26?
3/ This is just how browsers resolve time diffs. As these screenshots show, if you look at a FB post without logging it will give you the default time zone, which is UTC-8 or Pacific Standard Time. If you login it resolves to local time. See for yourself facebook.com/Adebimpeademej…
How much did Musk's "civil war is inevitable' reply to a tweet spreading #disinformation boost the original tweet?
TLDR: A reply from Musk will boost racist disinformation.
#UkRiots
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2/ On Aug 4 at 00.45 UTC the account @stclairashley retweeted a @libsoftiktok video with a false and xenophobic remark about immigration - attributing violence in UK to open borders (there aren't open borders). Musk replies at 03.07 UTC saying "Civil war is inevitable"
3/ The below graph shows the number of retweets over time. In green, are the retweets of @stclairashley's tweet BEFORE Musk replied. The orange tweets are the retweets AFTER Musk replies. Note the DRAMATIC increase in retweets of @stclairashley's tweet after Musk's intervention