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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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[–] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The koch brothers were behind the tea party, and ive never seen anything linking them to russia.

At a guess that astroturf movement was hijacked by others but im not sure we can pin much of that on russia specifically.

[–] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Um...Koch Industries donated tons of money to politician to not retaliate against Russia when they invaded Ukraine, and they refused to pull out of Russia when lots of other companies were. And that's just one small, recent example of their connections to Russia. Google can find lots of others. I mean go back far enough and their family had close connections to Stalin as well.

[–] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks this is useful to know