Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors.
The new “About This Account” feature, which became available to X users on Friday, allows others to see where an account is based, when they joined the platform, how often they have changed their username, and how they downloaded the X app.
Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places such as Russia, India, and Nigeria.
In one example, the account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We The People”—is actually based in Eastern Europe.
So just confirming what we already knew since this kind of bullshit has been exposed several times already.
How the fuck does Musk have security clearance is fucking beyond me
Just like the one time reddit released its statistics and the top location was from a US army base.
That was in 2013. Reddit stopped publishing these stats after this. Imagine how large the astroturfing is now.
Yakistanis who think it’s everyone against them is fucking poetic.
Have some of your own medicine, why don’t you?
When you realize that your social media is tolerable for a day because a US military base lost internet access.
I don’t think this is much of a surprise to anyone. What’s more interesting to me is that X/Twitter just proved they had the information to know this was going on all along and consequently must have chosen not to intervene. That should raise serious questions of the legal variety.
Maybe if we weren’t living in post-law America…
Well, fortunately I’m not, but I get what you’re saying.
This is actually exactly why Musk did it. It’s not a good faith attempt at transparency… It’s straight up “cover your ass” liability shifting. X has been accused of unfettered propaganda in recent election cycles, and this is just an attempt to go “hey, it’s the user’s fault if they fall for the propaganda. All of the info was there for them to find.”
Or Musk wants something and he’s threatening the orange.
People should just burn down Twitters data centers and offices. Like South Park showed us.
Not to anyone who’s been paying attention. I just met another tankie who professes to have no idea about it so the more common knowledge the better.
Maybe if we didn’t live in a literal tinpot dictatorship.
this might be surprising to the privacy paranoids that don’t want verified and validated online accounts so that authentic online interactions can sweep away the russian bots
when will lemmy do the same? we will see the same patterns me thinks
Maga people are reverting back to 'I don’t like/want to talk about politics."
Nature is
healingstagnating again.Now do the origin of bot accounts pushing topics to the top here on Lemmy.
I don’t think many of them pretend to be American pushing America First. I think you’d find that most of them would call themselves globalists in fact.
That said, I always find it funny that Lemmings are shocked to realize the Marxist-Leninists are often from Russia and have Russian or Chinese viewpoints.
I’m kinda offended by this. Lefties, die-hard Marxists in Russia are not pro-Russia and definitely not pro-China.
Also, I rarely see any Russians here, on Lemmy. I have subscribed for several groups, but it’s everything Lemmy has.
“Accidentally” my foot, the one with bells on it. The engineers knew.
Whether Elon knew and green-lit it, or even ordered the move as payback for his unceremonious departure from DOGE is anyone’s guess. But I stand by what I said earlier, this was intentional - and more power to whoever pushed it to production.
I think it was intentional and killed many birds with one stone - ie: trying to cover his ass in other countries to show that shitter is being transparent, shooting the maga boat that’s already sinking.
The world’s richest man is paying people in developing countries to stoke racism and division in the US is a factual statement
Billionaires are all criminals. Prison
I agree, except that you spelt guillotine incorrectly…
The only way to solve society’s problems is to [redacted; my lawyers have advised me not to finish this sentence for legal reasons]
I like how the DHS account was from Israel.
That’s the law of unintended consequences, muskyboy.
Didn’t this also reveal that the Department of Homeland Security twitter account is ran from Israel?
Nah that one was a fake. Funny though
It’s not far off being true though lmao
Yeah. Definitely a core truth in it
Hey, would you look at that.
The FBI’s first and foremost job is national security interests, particularly on identifing foreign actors in the state. The feds got played lmfao
Kash Patel’s FBI? A drunk raccoon could outplay them.
Nobody said the foreign actors weren’t foreign raccoons in a coat
Lmao nah. Feds are in on it
“FBI Agent”
Looks inside the badge
Its just FSB lmao
Wasn’t one of his biggest complaints when he bought Twitter was the number of bot accounts? That went well. And I’m assuming most pay $5 month, so he’s making bank from them.
Well, we knew at the time that was just a lie to get out of being fixed to buy the company.
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You sound surprised
Shocked, even.
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That Pikachu hurt itself in confusion.
That’s fucking great lol
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