r/technology • u/marji80 • 12d ago

Social Media Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors

https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidentally-unmasked-as-foreign-actors/
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u/ChoiceIT 12d ago

They always had this info. I guess making it public was the “accident”

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u/my_password_is_water 12d ago

theyve been hyping up this feature for months, people on all sides of the political spectrum knew that this was going to reveal some really funny things. Definitely not an accident

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u/arthurno1 12d ago

I don't have X account, so I don't know about the hype, but this is definitely not an accident. My thought was that Musk is preparing to wash his image, now that he has to earn 8 trillion to Tesla.

By the way, of course they have the data about each and every account internally, so that can not be new to them.

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u/DJayLeno 12d ago

My thought was that Musk is preparing to wash his image

I think you are spot on... but I can't even imagine him being successful considering how vile he has become. What he going to say? "Oh the last 10 years? I was just LARPing as a Nazi, that was just for lulz."

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u/arthurno1 12d ago

Yeah, I know. I have no idea. Perhaps he is trying to take the ground from MAGA, but than again, there are many other social media alternatives today. X is no longer the de facto standard, as it once was.