This is attracting a lot of trolls. I’m going to leave it up for a little while, but don’t take the bait please. If I see bait, I’m removing the chain, not just the OG comment.
Is this real or satire? God I hate that I ask this at least once a week
Uh I thought we knew about MAGA being fuelled by Russian propaganda farms 9 years ago lol
How about Chinese MAGA accounts?
…was anyone surprised?..
My parents who digest bullshit from the internet would be. But then the bots would post that I am a liar and they would believe the bots. Because boomers can’t be trusted with fake information vs real information.
…have you tried f2f?..
Face 2. Face? Fact 2 Fact?
My father is a religious radical. Facts are the literal devil to him.
…even the popes have consistently been swayed by scientific fact…it may not have been publicly, but, religious people can be very easily swayed with fly-by-night journalism…
…in person…one-on-one, but with some kind of moderation or peer-reviewed, perhaps even group or “interfaith” interpretation?..
I don’t know too much about American politics, but I am surprised with Nigeria and Bangladesh
Countries where salaries are low and English is high.
I mean, imagine paying a poor person $50 to yell at Wells Fargo for a week. That’s pretty much this.
$50 to yell at Wells Fargo for a week.
I’d do it for free.
So, if the USA want to minimize the problem, (no, autocorrect, not “use GPT”) they have to lift these and similar countries to western pay standard?
Cheap labor that Russia can afford.
Cheap natively english-speaking labour, to be precise.
Cheap natively english-speaking labour, to be precise.
Nigerians natively speak English? I can barely understand their English.
…have you seen the offshore accounts of American manufactureers?..
I don’t think I’ve ever seen any manufacturer account
…surely?..
They’re also hotbeds for running phone scams for the same reasons. Lots of people with English skills and desperate poverty willing to do evil things for money.
Rich english-speaking countries better brace themselves because there’s about to be a lot more desperate people with all the cuts to foreign aid that are going on.
The fact that only Cambridge Analytica has been investigated for manipulation is a testament to how widespread it is, and that Elon Musk was able to buy Twitter without consequence was just reality smearing it all over our faces.
I don’t live in america, nor want to, yet I’m also wanting to influence the americans…to do something about the orange kiddie fiddling rapist that they voted in, twice!
Same. Whatever happens in USA tends to rub off on Europe, either through cultural impact, or through propaganda.
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More like fear-ridden shithole. But potato tomato.
If america has a vold, the rest of the world gets sick. And right now, it’s bleeding out of the asshole.
We still have our lovely national parks… For now… Culturally though, eugh.
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It is a very pretty and strange place. I enjoyed the time I got to spend there.
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Real, it’s like trying to save the Roman Empire at this point lol
Grok is this real
Looks like someone asked Grok and archived it for posterity. https://archive.is/kM8aq
…beep, boop … No, this can’t be real, because it would be stupid and utterly unscrupulous deception of users. So it can’t be real, since X is owned by Elon Musk, the most handsome, responsible, and intelligent person in the world. … boop, boop…
/s
See also:
Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries
and
Elon Musk’s X rolls out feature that shows users’ country of origin – then suddenly removes it
Mashable said it’s because users were reporting innacuracies for their own locations, and Raw Story doesn’t have any metrics to support their claim… as usual. I couldn’t find anything on the number of maga accounts from other countries.
Not to say astroturfing isn’t happening, there’s foreign interference for sure and some of those screenshots are probably legit. It’s just more likely that Xitter’s broken and their new feature didn’t work.
Yes, it may well be that they have once again released an unfinished, flawed feature far too early.
I’m not saying that it’s necessarily due to the possibly unintended transparency regarding right-wing extremist accounts. It’s just that it apparently led to some accounts being visible as being maintained from abroad, even though they insist so much on “America first” and so on. I just wanted to point out that it’s a strange coincidence that this feature was immediately withdrawn as soon as this apparently became visible to the users.
Of course, there may be other reasons for rolling back this feature, but with Musk, I wouldn’t be surprised if he did it with regards to his political allies, since he clearly has an agenda that aligns with this kind of ideology (astroturfing or not).
I can’t judge this myself because I stay as far away from xitter as possible. So I only know what I’ve seen in the media reports – and I don’t think there’s much reliable information out there.
So yes, it’s speculation, but it doesn’t seem impossible at all that the situation is as described in the post. I just wanted to back this up with some other sources that aren’t xitter.
If this were 15 years ago, sure, I’d accept that “it’s just more likely that Xitter’s broken” but not now. Not after the shenanigans Musk has played over and over. The benefit of the doubt is gone for that fascist.
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I asked grok
Cock is this real
Hard to say — let’s check Pornhub for relevant citations.
“Let’s hide everything in the midst of fog so we can continue with our fuckery.”. At least Elon learned something from the americans.
Twitter is still popular. Most people are just never going to leave it. I don’t think they care either way whether the location feature exposed anything or not. Musk gets people talking about his platform and that’s all he cares about. Most people are like leftists. They will complain about things, but won’t really do anything productive to help realize meaningful changes.
If that is true then Musk & Twitter 100% knew about it before disclosing location to other users.
No way in hell. Musk was probably like “let’s show location guys, think of how much more noticing we could do tehe!”
And then he got results that triggered him, so he had them turn it off
Only if they cared enough to analyse the data though
Musk is both stupid enough and narcissitic enough to have legitimately thought his charm and personality were making MAGA flock to him on his own personal “I need my ego stroked” site. It’s quite possible it never even occured to him that none of it was real.
That’s a good point.
Musk, Trump and other narcissist like them always look genuinely confused when a crowd boos them.
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Maybe the real CIA-funded third world nation coups were the bots we made along the way
That’s what happens when you monetize engagement…
Hopefully news agencies run with it, but their CEOs and chairmen seem to be largely complicit.
lol there’s a conspiracy going around that Muskrat did it on purpose to humiliate Trump. Something about something he said at the State dinner?
Shouldn’t the result humiliate Musk more than Trump? Musk is the one responsible for the integrity of his platform.
I don’t think he has this "integrity"concept we used tto value.
