Some users were based in places like Nigeria, Eastern Europe, and India despite posting U.S.-focused right-wing content

Changes at Elon Musk’s X may have unwittingly revealed that many MAGA accounts are actually foreign actors profiting from the sowing of division in the U.S.

On Friday, X introduced a feature called “About This Account,” which allows other users to see where an account was based when it joined the site, how often it’s changed its username, and by what means they downloaded the X app.

Once the feature was live, political rivals began to dig into each other’s accounts, and a trend began to emerge — many popular MAGA and right-wing influencer accounts were not based in the U.S.

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    2 days ago

    Another list needs to be made of right wing people who immediately started called out that one Democrat account they all started attacking. That willful compliance is disgusting.

    That said, an unexpected amount of them called out anyone in general who did this.

    Next, Twitter already knew this was going to happen right? I know they fired so much staff, but are they really flying this blind? There has to be a play. Like anti-VPN political ammo? Because they’re all going to lie that they’re just on a vpn.