Pecohub Elon Musk received a wave of praise over the weekend after his developers at X rolled out a new feature showing the global location of accounts, revealing many influencers in U.S. politics are actually based overseas.
While cybersecurity experts and general social media users have long warned of bots and foreign influence campaigns maliciously working to stir up anger, resentment, and outright hate within U.S. politics with inflamatory rhetoric online, Musk has finally given concrete proof that this is the case.
Many of the accounts that have been revealed to be overseas are branded as pro-Trump MAGA accounts or part of Nick Fuentes’s “Groypers.” Fans of the new feature were also quick to point out the abundance of pro-Palestinian accounts claiming to be reporting from inside Gaza or the U.S., that were in fact as far away as Australia or Indonesia.
Pro-Trump NewsNation host Batya Ungar Sargonshared a MAGA-branded account that was revealed to be based in Bangladesh and wrote, “Exposing where these accounts are located was a stupendous act of patriotism. Thank you @elonmusk and thank you @KatiePavlich whose idea it was!”
