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In reply to the discussion: Europeans have Musk's number: that's gonna leave a mark. [View all]Botany
(77,712 posts)Over 70% of the MAGA big web sites including one called MAGA for America is foreign in origin.
Musk bought Twitter so he could give platforms for right wing extremist propaganda which is then
down loaded onto American Conservative Web sites and it makes it seem that MAGA is much bigger
than it really is. Europe is all over his cyber terrorism and understand what a threat he is to democracy.
[My guess is all those far flung MAGA web sites can bet traced back to Russia and its cyber army called
Storm 15-16. Putin and Musk are old friends and Musk has been all over Ukraine's rare earth minerals]
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On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
That's even more true on social media platforms, which allow anonymous users to rile up other users.
Elon Musk supercharged this idea when he bought Twitter. So it's no surprise that a lot of big accounts there turned out to be overseas trolls.
But lots of other people seemed to be shocked to learn that some high-profile accounts on X, the app formerly known as Twitter, are not who they say they are: A new feature on the app lets you see (more or less) where people are posting from, and it turns out that lots of X accounts that position themselves as very interested in American politics and culture are coming from places like India, Thailand and Eastern Europe.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fake-twitter-accounts-elon-musk-x-location-2025-11