Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors.

The new ā€œAbout This Accountā€ feature, which became available to X users on Friday, allows others to see where an account is based, when they joined the platform, how often they have changed their username, and how they downloaded the X app.

Dozens of major accounts masquerading as ā€œAmerica Firstā€ or ā€œMAGAā€ proponents have been identified as originating in places such as Russia, India, and Nigeria.

In one example, the account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading ā€œPatriot Voice for We The Peopleā€ā€”is actually based in Eastern Europe.

  • ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    ā€œAccidentallyā€ 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.

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      9 hours ago

      I think it was intentional and killed many birds with one stone - ie: trying to cover his ass in other countries to show that shitter is being transparent, shooting the maga boat that’s already sinking.