Exhausting medication actively bought on Twitter in plain sight. Twitter says it doesn’t breach its security insurance policies • Graham Cluley

Need to promote some cocaine, ecstasy (MDMA), crystal meth, or magic mushrooms?

Twitter may very well be the place for you. And the location isn’t going to do something to close down your account.

A reader pointed me within the route of quite a few completely different Twitter accounts which are actively providing unlawful medication to sale, directing events to name or WhatsApp a UK cellular quantity, or contact them by way of e mail, Snapchat, Wickr, or Telegram.

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In some instances the offending tweets even embody quick movies of the unlawful medication accessible.

Within the following screenshots I’ve blurred out the contact particulars of the particular person providing to promote the medication, however they aren’t obscured within the posts – that are nonetheless reside on Twitter.

The emails include the names of UK cities the place the medication could be delivered, presumably to make it straightforward for anybody looking out of their space for a provider.

So, what’s Twitter’s response to this?

After reviewing the accessible info, we need to let you already know <REDACTED> hasn’t damaged our security insurance policies. We all know this isn’t the reply you’re searching for. If this account breaks our insurance policies sooner or later, we’ll notify you.

That was Twitter’s response on 22 January, after it was informed in regards to the accounts on 19 January. The accounts are nonetheless actively posting medication on the market on Twitter at this time (10 February 2023).

After all, if Twitter did truly delete an account promoting medication likelihood is {that a} model new alternative would pop up once more inside hours… relatively like a mushroom.

If Twitter received’t do something about this, I ponder whether a UK police power will likely be ? You’d suppose any police power price its salt would be capable to examine with the knowledge that’s being publicly shared in these tweets (e mail addresses, cellphone numbers, Twitter accounts, and many others…)

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