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MAGA trolls outed as foreigners vanish from X after brutal update (www.thedailybeast.com)
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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.

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[+] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    There are literal companies you can hire. They also do it to cancel people or promote beliefs about people.

    A good example is that Johnny Depp admitted he hired one against his ex during the public court stuff to make her look bad. Amber Heard. And it worked.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3VnNDMYzttcGgBNQB0BswtH/amber-heard-vs-the-internet-an-organised-smear-campaign

    Companies, in this case, owned by Saudi

    This stuff sounds like crackpot conspiracy theories. But it's real. This stuff is reality now.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    That last paragraph was something that struck me...I was thinking about this earlier in the day.

    The great thing about disadvantaged groups is that they are easy to exploit.

    This isn't cheating. This is playing the game strictly by the rules. The whole system of checks and balances assumed good faith and professional conduct. That turned out to be a really shitty assumption.

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