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.

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[–] 4 points 11 months ago* (11 children)

I don't understand it...Ehat are the gains at lying about country here?

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  • [–] 41 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

    How do you do my fellow Americans? How about we just start burning stuff down?

    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).

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  • [–] 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

    It basically exposed all these accounts as being fake, and spreading MAGA conspiracy bullshit in USA

    Exhibit A

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Totally irrelevant, but something about her posture/clothing looks so physically uncomfortable to me and I can’t put my finger on it.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    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.

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