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The leak itself is almost surely fake. It's a very short list of well known right-wing accounts and confirmed mouthpiece accounts. You'd think a "leak" would reveal several other, as of yet unknown users, right? Not even a few internal test accounts? Some of them are even misspelled.

It would also make no sense that would need a whitelist of racial slurs if the accounts are themselves also whitelisted? Having this in a public Okta endpoint doesn't make a lick of sense either.




Also pointed out in the replies on Twitter is that at least one of the usernames in the "leak" is misspelled.

https://x.com/BigMeeish/status/1816238982948348306


Yeah I'm willing to believe that X has some accounts marked for various special treatments, but I'll need something more conclusive than a screenshot to prove it.




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