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.