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Many Top MAGA Trolls Aren’t Even in the U.S - Elon Musk’s new X feature has been very revealing. (newrepublic.com)

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Starting Friday, X users were able to use a new “about this account” feature to see what country accounts were based in. And for many “America First” posters, this revealed an inconvenient truth, as reported by The Daily Beast.

For example, one account literally named “America First”—with 67,000 followers—seems to be based not in the U.S., but in Bangladesh.

Another popular conservative account, MAGA Nation, with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio that reads, “Standing strong with President Trump 🇺🇸 | America First | Patriot Voice for We The People,” is apparently based in Eastern Europe.

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[–] SapphireSphinx@feddit.org 67 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

First of all: I'm not American but let me recapitulate the facts as I understand them.

Foreign actors are actively and successfully waging war against American democracy (and therefore against the USA and it's traditional allies).
Elon Musk, an American citizen, knows about these attacks on his country but allows them to continue and even supports the attackers by shielding them from discovery.

Shouldn't there be some kind of legal action to stop and punish him?

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Shielding them how? This feature exposes them

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When he realised the feature exposed them, he pulled it.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Doesn't look pulled to me, and the OP article says it's a rumor but it still works

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