X launches "About this account" feature, Backfires

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.
 
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Kacho said:
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People have already begun "hiding" their locations.

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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.
 
SJRB said:
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.
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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
 
Rentahamster said:
Two sources, depending on which echo chamber you prefer to frolic in.

redstate.com

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

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

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.
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It shows that foreign influences are playing the sides against each other, which is the real issue.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
Unknown Soldier said:
Why do foreigners pretend to be American when trying to influence Americans on social media?
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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."
 
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In a couple of weeks new accounts will find ways to bypass this feature, not super confident this will be that effective moving forward.
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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
 
Celcius said:


Is this real? (I don't have a twitter account but keep seeing this posted places)
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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 😂
 
Unknown Soldier said:
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
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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
 
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?
 
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.
 
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Why would I use X when it seems 75% of it are people lying for various reasons to speed America's already historic decline?
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Because it hilarious and should be treated as entertainment, not facts or truth. Sure, some things are like nightly sports highlights, or some company issues a recall letter on some bad food they shipped out. Some of it is truthful, some of it isn't. But most can be classfied as fodder and entertainment no matter how accurate it is.

Heck, you can already tell it's sketchy since a lot of profiles dont even use their real name, pic or identity. So right away that's a red flag.

But the vast majority of people you know using Linkedin post pretty accurate info. Sure, their pic might be old or they might fib about their job here and there, but for the most part it's pretty accurate. As opposed to some moron on Twitter with an anime avatar called: SweetKissyFur28535. I like eating peas and carrots and Free Palestine! Who the hell would take that profile seriously.

Youll never see that on a Linkedin profile.
 
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StreetsofBeige said:
Because it hilarious and should be treated as entertainment, not facts or truth. Sure, some things are like nightly sports highlights, or some company issues a recall letter on some bad food they shipped out. Some of it is truthful, some of it isn't. But most can be classfied as fodder and entertainment no matter how accurate it is.

Heck, you can already tell it's sketchy since a lot of profiles dont even use their real name, pic or identity. So right away that's a red flag.

But the vast majority of people you know using Linkedin post pretty accurate info. Sure, their pic might be old or they might fib about their job here and there, but for the most part it's pretty accurate. As opposed to some moron on Twitter with an anime avatar called: SweetKissyFur28535. I like eating peas and carrots and Free Palestine! Who the hell would take that profile seriously.

Youll never see that on a Linkedin profile.
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LinkedIn is just a really sanctimonious version of Facebook and Reid Hoffman is a known associate of Jeffrey Epstein

I can't stand the fake corpo-positivity at LinkedIn
 
This was really funny, remember when Elon bought Twitter and was like it is all for free speech and transparency and morons actually believed it? 😂
 
SJRB said:
The next step, clearly, should be a region block. I want all these idiots removed from my timeline.
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Given all the scammers that originate in certain pockets of the world, we need to be bold enough to fundamentally block certain regions off the first-world web entirely. So many fake accounts, and so many scammers trying to trick grandmas into buying from false websites. Once there's enough of that coming from a nation, simply cut them off from all access until they can police their own people.
 
I get ads in the freakin YouTube app on iOS that show ai generated pictures of the canadian prime minister and other politicians in handcuffs or whatever and the ads are always from India. I complain about the blatantly fake ad and I get no response from YouTube about it.
 
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I get ads in the freakin YouTube app on iOS that show ai generated pictures of the canadian prime minister and other politicians in handcuffs or whatever and the ads are always from India. I complain about the blatantly fake ad and I get no response from YouTube about it.
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That's because they make money off fake ads. Same with facebook. They have zero incentive to stop it
 
So many commenters on both sides of the US political aisle are foreign accounts, this shit is hilarious in the saddest ways.



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Lukaku's First Touch said:
Americans fell in droves for these fake accounts. Easiest and cheapest way ever to destroy a country and its reputation. Sad really.
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It's the same in Europ though. Social media making sure Farage looks competent. Or in the Netherlands, that guy's reputation collapsed when he actually held power. Or in France where the main right-wing guy's biggest achievement is to have dated the party's creator's grand-daughter and is heavily pushed by TikTok. Or in Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, etc.
 
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Americans fell in droves for these fake accounts. Easiest and cheapest way ever to destroy a country and its reputation. Sad really.
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It'll be happening everywhere - the truth is that people all over the world are getting angry about things that push their buttons, and that makes them easier to manipulate.

One possible reason to try and expose these accounts (but also protect some and allow them to be whitelisted and keep on lying about their location) is to try and give people reason to feel that Twitter can be trusted.

As AI video matures, the disinformation is going to be off the scale. And there will be loads of it on twitter. When the next round of elections takes place, it's fair to say that you will not be able to trust what is being said on Twitter, even if it's backed up by video.

Elon Musk, owner of Twitter, who helped secure Donald Trump's second presidency, took a role in the government, talked about starting his own party when that soured, and has been trying to influence European politics, would probably like people to think that his social media platform is the one you can trust.

This seems like a good appeal to authenticity, before he starts sharing videos that smear the candidates who he doesn't approve of.
 
HoodWinked said:
What a stupid ass post. Compared to any other mainstream platform it's leagues more transparent and more open than others.
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That is genuinely diabolical, fuck the others but X is literally Elon's propaganda machine and he picks what spreads and what doesn't anyone with more than 2 brain cells can see that
 
L*][*N*K said:
That is genuinely diabolical, fuck the others but X is literally Elon's propaganda machine and he picks what spreads and what doesn't anyone with more than 2 brain cells can see that
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Yes. We're at least seeing more transparency than Meta's platforms though, where scams and disinfo generate billions per month and are openly accepted, and an entire generation of young people have been turned dysfunctional. Then there's TikTok's social engineering.

It's all terrible for society.
 
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