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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    10 hours ago

    I don’t think many of them pretend to be American pushing America First. I think you’d find that most of them would call themselves globalists in fact.

    That said, I always find it funny that Lemmings are shocked to realize the Marxist-Leninists are often from Russia and have Russian or Chinese viewpoints.

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      I’m kinda offended by this. Lefties, die-hard Marxists in Russia are not pro-Russia and definitely not pro-China.

      Also, I rarely see any Russians here, on Lemmy. I have subscribed for several groups, but it’s everything Lemmy has.