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.

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[–] 42 points 11 months ago (1 child)

"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.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    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.

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