It is inconceivable that they [the weapons dealers] are not operating on the Houthis' behalf," said the former British Ambassador to Yemen, Edmund Fitton-Brown. "Purely private dealers who tried to profit from supplying the government of Yemen would be quickly shut down."
Most of the platform's content moderators were laid off after the new owner Elon Musk bought the company in 2022, allowing illegal weapons advertisements to thrive.
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.
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.
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