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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[–] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Now do the origin of bot accounts pushing topics to the top here on Lemmy.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    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.

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