Inp.polri.go.id - Jakarta.  Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan, the Director General of Informatics Applications at the Ministry of Communication and Information, confirmed that the social media platform X has already removed online gambling content that caused concern among the public recently. "It has been taken down. That was their (X platform's) oversight," he said on Thursday (18/1/2024). Semuel explained that the modus operandi of spreading online gambling ads on X initially deceived Elon Musk's platform by claiming to market different content instead of online gambling. Using paid premium accounts with blue checkmarks, the perpetrators of online gambling ads managed to carry out their actions, antaranews.com reported Despite that, after the warnings from  the Ministry following public reports, the X platform promptly addressed the reports. Semuel believed that surveillance from the public as users of social media platforms, including X users, could be useful in creating a healthy digital space in Indonesia. The Ministry of Communication and Information has officially issued a stern warning to the X social media platform regarding the discovery of online gambling ads circulating on its service. (mg/inp/pr/nm)