Elon Musk's new X policy unwittingly exposes MAGA influencers as foreign trolls

[Botany]

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.

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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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Dozens of right-wing accounts pushing U.S. political content were actually started in places like India, Russia, and Nigeria. (@ the end of the day all these phony accounts go back to Russia … my Two cents …. Storm 15-16)

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Last year, the Department of Justice discovered that a number of popular right-wing influencers were — reportedly — unwittingly working for a company that was actually a Russian influence operation, meaning they were taking payment from a Russian company to push their ideas.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/musk-x-maga-influencers-foreign-b2870944.html?callback=in&code=MTFJZWM5YTATZWVHMS0ZN2VKLWE3ZDKTYMMXYJZIZJFLMTFI&state=ff30d949eac54b48b153124b0e41c1d1


Apologies the site is very hard to read.

[The Roux Comes First]

1. Unsurprising - a Trend Stretching Back to At Least 2016 ("Russia, if You're Listening . . .")

They probably don't have to work quite so hard at it now that they have so many brainless puppets installed in the White House and on Capitol Hill, not to mention a gibbering, gun-toting constituency with a very narrow Fox-conditioned bandwidth.

[Botany]

3. Russian and Soviet disinformation fed into America and Western Democracies goes back 50 years.

Trump repeating the Soviet propaganda that the European Countries were not paying their fair share
to NATO is @ least 60 years old. I can’t stomach it long enough to look @ it but Rush Limbaugh, Fox
News, and Republican Congress Critters have been repeating Russian talking points for years. A truly
dear friend of mine I had to cut off contact with because he has been repeating Russian talking points for
a long time. Did you know that white men in America are under attack because they are males?

[BootinUp]

2. Rec5

[GopherGal]

4. Sounds like that new feature on X lasted about as long as TSF's Gaza ceasefire

before the embarrassments made Eloon quash it.