I don't think this is much of a surprise to anyone. What's more interesting to me is that X/Twitter just proved they had the information to know this was going on all along and consequently must have chosen not to intervene. That should raise serious questions of the legal variety.

The world's richest man is paying people in developing countries to stoke racism and division in the US is a factual statement

Pika pika

Wait till you find out who's paying them

"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.

Just like the one time reddit released its statistics and the top location was from a US army base.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160406094911/http://www.redditblog.com/2013/05/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day.html

That was in 2013. Reddit stopped publishing these stats after this. Imagine how large the astroturfing is now.

Yakistanis who think it’s everyone against them is fucking poetic.

Have some of your own medicine, why don't you?

Hey, would you look at that.

The FBI's first and foremost job is national security interests, particularly on identifing foreign actors in the state. The feds got played lmfao

I like how the DHS account was from Israel.

The majority are fucking Putin bots or from Xi's 50 Cent Army. Leon Hitler can F-himself too.

Billionaires are all criminals. Prison

Maga people are reverting back to 'I don't like/want to talk about politics."

Nature is healing stagnating again.

Quick, now do Truth Social

Wasn’t one of his biggest complaints when he bought Twitter was the number of bot accounts? That went well. And I'm assuming most pay $5 month, so he's making bank from them.

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

I'm shocked! SHOCKED! well, not that shocked.

So just confirming what we already knew since this kind of bullshit has been exposed several times already.

Everybody knows the power behind this is Russia. But nobody mentions it?

Welcome to the internet? Anonymity allows anyone to pretend to be anything, so they are more the carrier of a message than some authenticity based on a name. And where there is a market for a message, people will consume without regard for who said it, or even often without validating the message itself. Caveat emptor baby.

No surprise here. A good part of them are probably Russian, anyway.

How the fuck does Musk have security clearance is fucking beyond me

wait you mean the fact that we call them influencers and the fact that they are literal widget shills and the fact that they push out political propaganda are all related 😯

That's the law of unintended consequences, muskyboy.

I will admit that I lack knowledge in this area. "Political influencer" is a foreign concept for me. What I'm wondering is how this matters. I'm not a US citizen, but given enough followers, I could easily have been an anti GOP influencer. I would put my word out against the right wing because I don't want their political movement to spread.

What am I missing here?

That's a real shocker. /s

That’s like leaking the scientific discovery that water makes things wet

They would have know this before putting it public, and someone signed off on the deployment. Here's a bet that Musk or his surrogates got a nasty gram from the whitehouse telling them to shelve it.

Now do Lemmy 🙃