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Many of the MAGA influencers outed as living in countries like Nigeria and Bangladesh have since vanished from X.
The users, who had over a million followers between them, had their country of origin exposed over the weekend as part of a new X feature that now shows where accounts were created and how their owners downloaded the social platform’s app.
Four prominent accounts unmasked by the feature—DarkMAGA, MagaScope, WilliamAlbrech, and IvankaNews_—now show as being “suspended” for violating “X rules,” though it is unclear which. X’s website says it bars users who pretend to be someone they are not—something all the accounts appear to be guilty of.
I don’t understand it…Ehat are the gains at lying about country here?
The accounts are largely based in countries that are suspected by many to be manipulating US public opinion (e.g.Russia/Israel) or from countries with lots of click farms, scam centers, and other “engagement” services.
It showed how much of the American right-wing social media sphere wasn’t legitimately American in origin.
Sounds more like countries where the advertisement revenue share model of Shitter made this a lucrative income opportunity.
“America First!”
-some paid troll in Russia
It basically exposed all these accounts as being fake, and spreading MAGA conspiracy bullshit in USA
Exhibit A
Totally irrelevant, but something about her posture/clothing looks so physically uncomfortable to me and I can’t put my finger on it.
Well she’s cold enough to keep wearing her down jacket and have her non-typing hand tucked in. She’s straight upright, scooting her chair to reach along the row. No lolling back with thigh-highs on the desk for her.
Basically pretending to be an organic grass-roots movement or to plant the seeds but the movement is to either destabilize or otherwise benefit a foreign entity.
Basically shit like that (it’s not always that transparent except when it is exactly that transparent). See it pretty often even on here (less so since I’ve enabled “turbo” on my block button).
Manipulating people. Pushing value and rhetoric “as a fellow American” when you’re a bot in Russia.
Not that I pay attention to the platform, but I gather these where prominent accounts claiming to be real muricans who totally supported prez turnip but where entirely fabricated. In theory an account either needs to be legitimate, or marked specifically as a parody of some sort.