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.
Maga people are reverting back to 'I don’t like/want to talk about politics."
Nature is
healingstagnating again.Quick, now do Truth Social
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.
People should just burn down Twitters data centers and offices. Like South Park showed us.
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.
Maybe if we weren’t living in post-law America…
Well, fortunately I’m not, but I get what you’re saying.
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
The majority are fucking Putin bots or from Xi’s 50 Cent Army. Leon Hitler can F-himself too.
Pika pika
You sound surprised
Shocked, even.
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This is what it looks like on my client, and I felt the world needed to see what Absolutely Blasted Pikachu looks like
Put a double space at the end of each
line to do a line break
That Pikachu hurt itself in confusion.
That’s fucking great lol
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?
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.
No surprise here. A good part of them are probably Russian, anyway.
The world’s richest man is paying people in developing countries to stoke racism and division in the US is a factual statement
I like how the DHS account was from Israel.
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
“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.
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’m shocked! SHOCKED! well, not that shocked.
I will admit that I lack knowledge in this area. “Political influencer” is a foreign concept for me. What I’m wondering is how this matters. I’m not a US citizen, but given enough followers, I could easily have been an anti GOP influencer. I would put my word out against the right wing because I don’t want their political movement to spread.
What am I missing here?
The issue is that our dictatorship is EXTREMELY unpopular, but they use lies like this to pretend that they are actually loved and you shouldn’t believe your own eyes and ears.
You don’t have hundreds of thousands of followers and you aren’t pretending to be American.
I get that it’s bad that people with a large follower base are claiming to be something that they are not, but does that call for legal action? Or does it break with terms of service of xitter or whatever social media they are using? Are influencers legally held to a higher standard due to their line of work? (These are honest questions, not just rhetotical. I honestly don’t know.)
Or is the main point that xitter had the information that they were lying, but didn’t put their knowledge to action?
