Verified X Account Puts Literal Bounty on Mohammad Marandi; Musk Leaves It Up

A verified X account posts a bounty on an Iranian academic, X left it up, so Musk’s “violent content” rules aren't worth the pixels they’re printed on. Right, so a verified X account, is currently offering a one million dollar bounty for the capture of that most eloquent of Israeli and western propaganda destroyers Professor Mohammad Marandi alive, they specify they want him alive. The account is called Terror Alarm, the post is described there as a paid partnership no less, who with begs the question and Elon Musk’s platform has left it sitting there days after report after report about this post, not least from Marandi himself, have been submitted, which tells you more about X than any number of help-centre pages ever will. But if you are wondering why this man is so important, an academic as he is; if you’ve not seen his calm smiling eviscerations of wet western media talking points, well, allow me to introduce you. Mohammad Marandi is not a militia commander, not an armed faction leader, not some man on an international wanted poster that everybody has somehow missed. He is a professor at the University of Tehran, he works in English, and he has spent years going onto English-language media and making very comfortable, very smug people look either dishonest or thick or both. Terror Alarm decided that the correct response to that was not to beat him in argument, not to ignore him, not even to smear him in the usual grubby online way, but to push a bounty now for his capture and do it on a platform that says violent threats and incitement are banned. Musk’s platform then looked at that spectacle it seems, looked at its own rulebook, tossed it aside and instead chose the oldest trick in the coward’s handbook, which is to do nothing while pretending procedure is still intact. X says in its violent content policy that explicitly threatening, inciting, glorifying, or expressing desire for violence is not allowed. X also says violent speech includes content that threatens, incites, glorifies, or expresses desire for violence or harm. X then goes further and says high-severity material such as violent threats, wish of harm and incitement of violence must be removed.