New update Since the platform activated the “About this account” function, it has become clear that several accounts with thousands of followers dedicated to President Donald Trump’s movement are already located outside the country.
Among the accounts that raised alerts were @MAGANationX, which is operated from Eastern Europe; @DarkMagaCoin, which publishes content from Thailand; @MAGA100X, active in Germany; @ScopeMaga_ in Nigeria; y @RightScopee in Egypt. As of this update, the focus has also extended to other accounts with a significant presence on
The controversy over pro-Trump profiles operating from abroad is resurfacing years after the first journalistic and judicial investigations revealed an army of bots linked to Russia that waged a massive social media campaign against Hillary Clinton during the 2016 US election. The comics, the so-called Internet Research Agency, a nominally independent company founded in St. Petersburg but closely linked to Putin’s regime, replaced the identities of American citizens to publish them. Fake news in favor of Trump’s candidacy. The case resulted in an FBI investigation that ordered the arrest of 12 Russian military intelligence officers accused of conspiracy.
Since then, the presence of bots on social networks has been practically underestimated, and it is often impossible to measure their impact, whether commercial or political. However, as it stands, no investigation has been conducted into the possible imposition of sanctions on foreign governments.
The new transparency function of the social network, formerly known as Twitter, is also raising its own swells. In the first hours of his rehabilitation, a photo was circulated purporting to prove that the account of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS, by its acronym in English) was supposedly managed from Israel. “I can’t believe we had to decide this, but this account was only operated from the US. Screenshots are easy to fake,” he wrote on the DHS account.
Nikita Beer, the platform’s product lead, denied these reports and explained that government organizations that work with gray color screening are exempt from this procedure to avoid risks. doxxingHow do you know? Publishing private data online without the consent of a person or entity. “DHS has only recorded IP addresses from the United States since the account was created,” he wrote. So far, X has not specified exactly how it will obtain its users’ location, but Pierre explained that the information “will be 99.9% accurate” and that any errors will be resolved in the next few days.
The platform announced this measure as a means to help its users identify the authenticity of the content they consume, and to limit the presence of bots that spread spam or fake news on the social network. The problem of automated accounts reproducing messages en masse has been one of the points that Elon Musk has put at the center of his agenda since his acquisition of Twitter in 2022. And just last month, X executives announced that they had removed 1.7 million accounts that responded to posts below with irrelevant content, such as promotional links, scams, and meaningless phrases. In the coming months, efforts will be focused on restricting bot content in direct messages.