Friday, November 28, 2025

Most MAGA influencer accounts on X come from overseas

Shocking to no one that's been paying attention. I've been saying foreign bot farm accounts have been active on social media including this site, for years.

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This was discovered on Twitter or X because of a new feature that you can activate to tell where the account is based out of.

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Would love for that feature to be active here.
There would be quite a few Ruskie bot/troll exposed.

#1 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-11-28 03:30 AM

@#1 ... Would love for that feature to be active here. ...

Yes, and no.

Reason for "yes" --- it will likely just expose what many already have suspected.

Reason for "no" --- VPN's.

OK, posting this comment, I am in CT.

Wih a simple click on the FoxyProxy icon on my browser's toolbar, I could appear to post comment from a different state.

If it is that easy for me, why couldn't a foreign alias use a similar pattern?

My guess would be a troll farm with people using something like FoxyProxy to appear to be where they are not.


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-28 04:22 AM

OK, here I am someplace place.

All it took was a click or two on the browser toolbar.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-28 04:27 AM

And, now I'm back to my usual IP address.


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-28 04:29 AM

@#3,4

For the techies among us, Wireguard is a cool program.

But you may already know that.


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-28 04:31 AM

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