X had takes payments from Hezbollah leaders, Houthi officials, and militia leaders in Syria and Iraq.
subscriptions offer users a blue check-mark
which include more prominent algorithm placement and post-editing along and longer-video sharing.
After the Tech Transparency Project reported last year that X had granted paid blue check marks to 28 accounts belonging to entities subject to U.S. sanctions, the social media company stripped badges from some of the accounts and suspended others.
But within a month, several of those accounts bought badges again — and have displayed them ever since.
More than 200 accounts linked to terrorist groups and other sanctioned groups have bought blue check marks, according to the Tech Transparency Project.
X did not respond to requests for comment.