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.

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.

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    Maga people are reverting back to 'I don’t like/want to talk about politics."

    Nature is healing stagnating again.

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    Hey, would you look at that.

    The FBI’s first and foremost job is national security interests, particularly on identifing foreign actors in the state. The feds got played lmfao

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    Wasn’t one of his biggest complaints when he bought Twitter was the number of bot accounts? That went well. And I’m assuming most pay $5 month, so he’s making bank from them.

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    wait you mean the fact that we call them influencers and the fact that they are literal widget shills and the fact that they push out political propaganda are all related 😯

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    I will admit that I lack knowledge in this area. “Political influencer” is a foreign concept for me. What I’m wondering is how this matters. I’m not a US citizen, but given enough followers, I could easily have been an anti GOP influencer. I would put my word out against the right wing because I don’t want their political movement to spread.

    What am I missing here?

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        I get that it’s bad that people with a large follower base are claiming to be something that they are not, but does that call for legal action? Or does it break with terms of service of xitter or whatever social media they are using? Are influencers legally held to a higher standard due to their line of work? (These are honest questions, not just rhetotical. I honestly don’t know.)

        Or is the main point that xitter had the information that they were lying, but didn’t put their knowledge to action?

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      The issue is that our dictatorship is EXTREMELY unpopular, but they use lies like this to pretend that they are actually loved and you shouldn’t believe your own eyes and ears.