{"id":43049,"date":"2024-08-22T20:01:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T20:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/yemen-weapons-dealers-selling-machine-guns-on-x\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T20:01:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T20:01:20","slug":"yemen-weapons-dealers-selling-machine-guns-on-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=43049","title":{"rendered":"Yemen weapons dealers selling machine guns on X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An investigation by The Times newspaper found that several of the Yemeni accounts bore the blue tick of verification. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both The Times and the BBC have approached X for comment, but have not so far received any response. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most of the platform\u2019s content moderators were laid off after the new owner Elon Musk bought the company in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The advertisements are mostly in Arabic and aimed primarily at Yemeni customers in a country where the number of guns is often said to outnumber the population by three to one. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC has found several examples online, offering weapons at prices in both Yemeni and Saudi riyals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The words beside the weapons are designed to lure in the buyers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Premium craftsmanship and top-notch warranty,&#8221; says one advertisement. &#8220;The Yemeni-modified AK is your best choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A demonstration video, filmed at night, shows the seller blasting off a 30-round magazine on full automatic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another offers sand-coloured Pakistani-produced Glock pistols for around $900 each. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yet these advertisements are not hidden in the depths of the Dark Web, where guns and other illegal items are usually traded, they are in plain sight on X, openly accessible to millions of people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c86l4pl6072o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation by The Times newspaper found that several of the Yemeni accounts bore the blue&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2428,1514,1513,2429,1541,1525],"class_list":["post-43049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-dealers","tag-guns","tag-machine","tag-selling","tag-weapons","tag-yemen"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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