MAGA Trolls Outed as Foreigners Vanish From X After Brutal Update
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Who knew MAGA was so big in Bangladesh, Nigeria and India?

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.

  • 2piradians@lemmy.worldEnglish
    882·
    9 hours ago

    Maybe try not being followers who allow ourselves to be influenced. I think if you had described this social media situation to average people 20 years ago most would have seen it as dystopian, evil even. But because it happened so gradually it gained acceptance.

    I guess what I’m saying is we should get the hell rid of it all so eventually public opinion won’t be swayed by cheap foreign labor, bots, and people who just want to burn it all down.

    But we won’t because too many think all this is better than the world before it existed.

    /rant

    • Horsecook@sh.itjust.works
      91·
      6 hours ago

      If only we could go back to the halcyon days of twenty years ago, when people were not influenced by talkshow hosts, athletes hawking household goods, and tabloids breathlessly reporting on actors and socialites.

    • Iced Raktajino@startrek.website
      35·
      9 hours ago

      I guess what I’m saying is we should get the hell rid of it all so eventually public opinion won’t be swayed by cheap foreign labor, bots, and people who just want to burn it all down.

      I’ve blocked so many accounts on here that are clearly not Americans just straight up trying to incite shit in US news / politics communities. I don’t know what’s worse: the number of upvotes those get or how transparent they are.

      • Augustiner@lemmy.world
        181·
        8 hours ago

        Always feel conflicted blocking guys like this… I wanna keep seeing them so I can downvote, but they also are just fucking annoying and toxic.

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      5 hours ago

      I mean… 20 years ago when we only had Xanga, MySpace, Friendster, LiveJournal, LinkedIn, and many others. Even Facebook is 21 years old now… though it didn’t become available for everyone for a couple years after that.

    • Kirp123@lemmy.world
      11·
      9 hours ago

      That requires a population that is educated and can critically read and analyze media. Don’t think any country in the world has that.