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[StreetsofBeige]

Hahaha. That's social media for ya.

But people faking stuff is really no different than all the people you know on Linked faking their jobs or tenure. Or your friends and fam on FB showing great pics, but in reality is miserable, getting divorced and a week away from moving out since the wife got the house. lol

I know an old coworker friend whose going through this just this year. Look at both their FB profiles and everything looks great. I know them, but not super close or anything. Turns out they were having marital issues and just split up. She's got the house and he just moved out to a condo. No idea how the child custody is going to be. I heard all this from a mutual friend. So he knew the whole time since he knows them better. Then I heard it from him. The couple never told me a thing about it and I see and talk to them once a year when we do one of those annual get together dinners.

You;d never guess in a million years going by their FB they had family issues.

 

[Black_Stride]

People have already begun "hiding" their locations.

 

[SJRB]

Absolutely insane how many propaganda-oriented accounts turn out to be situated in completely different parts of the world, mostly India.

The next step, clearly, should be a region block. I want all these idiots removed from my timeline.

 

[Baemono]

It exposes both sides, it's pretty hilarious.

Yes and no, it only shows that bad actors want people to hate each other to lead to a civil war. So not difficult to guess from where these troll farms are getting instructions

 

[Gp1]

Absolutely insane how many propaganda-oriented accounts turn out to be situated in completely different parts of the world, mostly India.

The next step, clearly, should be a region block. I want all these idiots removed from my timeline.

Ain't going to happen as long as the "major influencers" usually contract these 3rd world firms to manage their social network accounts, boost views, engagement, etc

 

[Kacho]

The damage control is hilarious. So many people exposed. Glorious.

 

[ReBurn]

Two sources, depending on which echo chamber you prefer to frolic in.

Whoa: Major Foreign Propagandists Utterly Exposed After X Glitch Reveals Account Locations

A glitch on X exposes foreign propaganda accounts posing as Americans.

redstate.com

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors

A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.

web.archive.org

It shows that foreign influences are playing the sides against each other, which is the real issue.

 

[Atrus]

There was an online thing recently in Canada about a White dude named Josh bringing up a number of political topics, including railing against Indian immigrants. Turns out the company that owns and created "Josh" was founded by… an Indian immigrant.



I also noticed when Reddit implemented its "insights" option, some fellow "Canadians" happen to also be from Russia.

 

[yet_another_alt]

EviLore please put flags next to usernames. Thanks.

 

[Celcius]

Is this real? (I don't have a twitter account but keep seeing this posted places)

 

[Kadve]

People have already begun "hiding" their locations.

You can choose to opt out. Which just proves that you got something to hide.

 

[JonSnowball]

To be fair you have to be an insulated gullible retard who takes everything at face value if you view this as "exposing" anyone. It's a well known fact that popular accounts empty headed fools follow as their version of a Fox News/CNN personality are generally overseas agents pushing their agenda. Conservatives being told anything progressive is going to end the world, Progressives being told anything grounded is going to result in death camps, etc... how about educating yourself on various sources and facing reality, and subsequently forming your own view instead of going "wow this guy sure seems to know, and his legion of pants on head wearing fuckbrains all agree!".

It's about the same as people watching YouTube personalities. "WOW THIS IS SO WOKE AMERICA IS FUCKED IN THE EARS, EYES, AND MOUTH!!!" or "omg like my three boyfriends told me this policy will end up banning amyl nitrate!"

The modern world makes me sad, and people who think they're "in the know" or educated are typically just regurgitating bullshit from their version of popular TV hosts previous generations would echo that fit their existing world views for comfort but somehow think it's different because it's on YouTube or Twitter. "But all these people agree with me, it must be correct". Suck a thousand cocks per second you poorly informed cum farmers.

But anyway that's my well reasoned take. Please note: I'm not American, and I'm barely even human.

Sent from Quatronian-69 in the Jizinthapus Region of the Cockstar Galaxy.

 

[Baemono]

Sent from Quatronian-69 in the Jizinthapus Region of the Cockstar Galaxy.

I thought you were staying at Quatronian-47, when did you move ?

 

[JonSnowball]

I thought you were staying at Quatronian-47, when did you move ?

I'm always on the move. Those orifices aren't going to probe themselves.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Is this real? (I don't have a twitter account but keep seeing this posted places)

lol no.

 

[EviLore]

You can guess…

 

[Unknown Soldier]

 

[SJRB]

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Why do foreigners pretend to be American when trying to influence Americans on social media?



It's time for region locking of social media. You should be allowed to filter out all posts from users outside your region or nation. It worked for video game consoles back in the day, and for DVD, it would work for social media lmao

 

[bender]

You can guess…

France?

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

My Chinese phone exploded and I havent bother to recover my Twitter account. I'm telling you, is the best thing to leave that bubble behind.

 

[Atrus]

Why do foreigners pretend to be American when trying to influence Americans on social media?

Foundations of Geopolitics published in 1997

• Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and seperatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-America racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics."

 

[thefool]

In a couple of weeks new accounts will find ways to bypass this feature, not super confident this will be that effective moving forward.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

In a couple of weeks new accounts will find ways to bypass this feature, not super confident this will be that effective moving forward.

Accounts already are allowed to opt out in their profiles

But opting out is the same as admission of guilt so I expect to see VPN use skyrocket among accounts which wish to hide their country of origin

 

[Mattyp]

Is this real? (I don't have a twitter account but keep seeing this posted places)

Yep was real, someone got access to the feature before it went global and was reporting on it and others followed up.

X said it was in 'error' must of been the only account in error then

 

[ReBurn]

You can guess…

Why isn't Spain topping this list?

 

[natjjohn]

Accounts already are allowed to opt out in their profiles

But opting out is the same as admission of guilt so I expect to see VPN use skyrocket among accounts which wish to hide their country of origin

I think if you use VPN it gets flagged.

There was this Texas woman MAGA influencer who was from Bangladesh or Nigeria. Then posted something like it was wrong and she's from USA. Then on their account was now showing USA but had the VPN indicator.

None of this should be surprising as Twitter is fake account central but good to see the proof

 

[Kacho]

My Chinese phone exploded and I havent bother to recover my Twitter account. I'm telling you, is the best thing to leave that bubble behind.

Twitter is basically just mainstream 4chan.

 

[P:axMagellanic]

Time to Geoblock South Asia.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Twitter is basically just mainstream 4chan.

it's funny because 4chan /pol/ is the only other place I can think of that forces you to post with a flag

It's a good idea though for twitter

 

[ZehDon]

Funny seeing this described as everything from a "glitch" to a "bold new feature" depending on who's describing what. At the end of the day, showing people that the majority of online "discourse" is literally non-sense is a good thing. However, it highlights how mis-used these platforms are. Why would I use X when it seems 75% of it are people lying for various reasons to speed America's already historic decline?

 

[adamsapple]

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Seems odd to me that Elon wants to expose all the account locations and impulsively enables a feature without thinking about the fallout (well, that bit isn't so odd). Following that, when he realises that he wants some accounts to be able to lie about their location and will be exposed, he disables the feature to whitelist those accounts. And that's not the bit that seems to trouble/interest people.

That's the most interesting bit to me.