Bad news, everyone. We have detected cockroaches in the kitchen.

The good news is that we just turned off the lights, so now we can't see them.

Edit 3: The Daily Beast has now confirmed some locations in the tweet:

Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places such as Russia, India, and Nigeria.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidentally-unmasked-as-foreign-actors/

Edit 2: Here is another one from a commenter in the comments. Again, take locations with a grain of salt:

A large number of MAGA social media influencers were exposed over the weekend as being being based in other countries.

Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries

Edit: This was reported as having zero citations and they're right. I haven't had my coffee yet. Because I was interested, I did find this article about it saying that it was removed quickly. Please take this with a grain of salt as to the locations.

It's unclear exactly why X quickly removed the feature shortly after rolling it out to the public. However, Bier replied to some X users who were reporting that their "About this account" was showing inaccurate information, which may be the reason why the feature was taken down.

We'll soon find out if Musk's social media platform reinstates the feature.

https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-rolls-out-country-of-origin-profiles-then-removes-it

This is attracting a lot of trolls. I'm going to leave it up for a little while, but don't take the bait please. If I see bait, I'm removing the chain, not just the OG comment.

...was anyone surprised?..

If that is true then Musk & Twitter 100% knew about it before disclosing location to other users.

Remember. Elon is a problematic drug addict but Twitter had this information long before he was in charge and they were perfectly content with this fact.

Tech companies are not your friend and don't give a shit about your cause or your morals.

Grok is this real

I don't live in america, nor want to, yet I'm also wanting to influence the americans...to do something about the orange kiddie fiddling rapist that they voted in, twice!

Maybe the real CIA-funded third world nation coups were the bots we made along the way

That's what happens when you monetize engagement..

Is there any source for this huge accusation that isn’t a blurry picture of text from someone you’ve never heard of? Come on Lemmy, you’re better than this.

The fact that only Cambridge Analytica has been investigated for manipulation is a testament to how widespread it is, and that Elon Musk was able to buy Twitter without consequence was just reality smearing it all over our faces.

Good to see Elon end up revealing this.

Is this real or satire? God I hate that I ask this at least once a week

lol there’s a conspiracy going around that Muskrat did it on purpose to humiliate Trump. Something about something he said at the State dinner?

Twitter is still popular. Most people are just never going to leave it. I don't think they care either way whether the location feature exposed anything or not. Musk gets people talking about his platform and that's all he cares about. Most people are like leftists. They will complain about things, but won't really do anything productive to help realize meaningful changes.

Hopefully news agencies run with it, but their CEOs and chairmen seem to be largely complicit.

"Let's hide everything in the midst of fog so we can continue with our fuckery.". At least Elon learned something from the americans.

fuck musk. hope he takes a flight in one of his own space ships.

How about Chinese MAGA accounts?

Edit: Oh? Why you downvote? It’s not like they don’t exist.

Russia, China ‘Bots’ Want Violence After Charlie Kirk killing

Nigeria and Bangladesh sound like VPN locations, honestly, not actual user locations though.