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.

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    11 hours ago

    this might be surprising to the privacy paranoids that don’t want verified and validated online accounts so that authentic online interactions can sweep away the russian bots

    when will lemmy do the same? we will see the same patterns me thinks