This document includes a list of IDs of accounts most closely associated with Nazi or neo-Nazi content on Twitter.
The list indicates which accounts currently have Blue verification, which are likely to be Blue subscribers who are hiding their subscriptions (determined by feature access metadata in their profiles), and which have been observed with ads in their profiles today (29 November 2023).
This document intentionally does not include any screen names, to make it a little harder for the account owners to brag about their position on the list.
Note that this isn't a generic list of racist accounts or accounts that spread hate speech, disinformation, etc.: it's very specifically a list of accounts that are likely to be sharing explicitly Nazi or neo-Nazi slogans or imagery. The list is automatically generated, and there may be some false positives, but some spot-checking suggests that the list is useful for its intended purpose (see next section).
Twitter's approach to moderation has never been good, but it's gotten much worse under Musk, and there only seem to be a couple of things that are likely to get Twitter's attention:
- Pressure from advertisers (Musk at least cared enough about losing IBM that he's going after Media Matters).
- Attention from regulators in the EU (for example Musk has threatened to remove X from Europe over the Digital Services Act).
The goal of this document is to help from both of these angles (to highlight dangers for advertisers and non-compliance with European laws).
This part is for anyone:
- Click one of the Twitter ID links (Twitter is most likely to be serving ads on the accounts marked as Blue subscribers).
- Find extremist content next to an ad.
- Take a screenshot.
- Reply to the advertiser with the screenshot, asking whether they're aware of where their ads are being placed.
- Post the screenshot in the comments here (optional).
And if you live in Germany:
- Find content that is illegal in Germany (e.g. for "approving of, glorifying, or justifying National Socialist rule of arbitrary force").
- Report the content using Twitter's NetzDG reporting flow.
- Post Twitter's response in the comments here (optional).