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Many Top MAGA Trolls Aren’t Even in the U.S. (newrepublic.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/worldnews@lemmy.ca
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Starting Friday, X users were able to use a new “about this account” feature to see what country accounts were based in. And for many “America First” posters, this revealed an inconvenient truth, as reported by The Daily Beast.

For example, one account literally named “America First”—with 67,000 followers—seems to be based not in the U.S., but in Bangladesh.

Another popular conservative account, MAGA Nation, with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio that reads, “Standing strong with President Trump 🇺🇸 | America First | Patriot Voice for We The People,” is apparently based in Eastern Europe.

And an Ivanka News fanpage with 1 million followers that posts things like, “Does the spread of Islam on American soil concern you?” is based in Nigeria.

Twitter users rounded up dozens of these accounts, sharing their disbelief.

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[–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Yeah and how many people who aren't Ukrainian are on the internet screaming for Ukraine to keep sending young men to die?

This reeks of "everyone who disagrees with me is a troll"

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    [–] 13 points 11 months ago* (5 children)

    The most interesting part of this is that Musk allowed it to happen. Either he genuinely did not realize he had been working with and supporting other foreign actors attempting to destabilize the US, or some X dev is about to get fired/disappear/"fall" out of a window. There's no way Musk knew these accounts were dishonest foreign astroturfers and permitted this feature go live.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    He and his friends want these chaos and evergrowing divide for they make people easier to manipulate. Truth won't hurt the elites if it doesn't exist, if everything is a lie. Demasking US patriot-bots as foreigners won't affect maga subscribers, it just further discourages everyone else from even talking to them.

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    • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Confirming what we already know. Totally astroturfed.

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    [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I've never been out of the eastern US in my life and mine says I'm based in the Netherlands

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