MAGA Twitter accounts exposed as overseas bots. Could it happen in NZ?

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls

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 “About This Account” 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.

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Upon rollout, rival factions began to inspect just where their online adversaries were really based on the combative social platform—with dozens of major MAGA and right-wing influencer accounts revealed to be based overseas.

“This is easily one of the greatest days on this platform,” wrote Democratic influencer Harry Sisson.

Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” 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 “Patriot Voice for We The People”—is actually based in Eastern Europe.

An Ivanka Trump fan account, IvankaNews, has 1 million followers and frequently posts about the dangers of Islam, the threat of illegal immigration and support for Trump. That account is based in Nigeria.

“This is total armageddon for the online right,” wrote law student and left-wing influencer Micah Erfan. “It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”

Jesus wept – Sooooooo many MAGA accounts are all overseas Trolls attempting to manipulate the political narrative.

This is an unbelievable level of manipulation over the Town Square of political debate.

Could it happen in NZ?

No way.

Oh wait.

Interestingly the Campaign Company has a Bot Army…

…hmmmm.

The mighty Redbaiter who has been a Right Wing Troll forever is actually in Australia…

…and this arsehole…

The most hilarious part of this is that half a day after Musk switched this feature on, they have suddenly switched it off because it has exposed so much of the truth behind the disinformation on Twitter.

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