Many of the MAGA influencers outed as living in countries like Nigeria and Bangladesh have since vanished from X.
The users, who had over a million followers between them, had their country of origin exposed over the weekend as part of a new X feature that now shows where accounts were created and how their owners downloaded the social platform’s app.
Four prominent accounts unmasked by the feature—DarkMAGA, MagaScope, WilliamAlbrech, and IvankaNews_—now show as being “suspended” for violating “X rules,” though it is unclear which. X’s website says it bars users who pretend to be someone they are not—something all the accounts appear to be guilty of.
I was wondering if this is just because of VPN use or something but nope this confirms they’re actually just hired trolls and the rubes have been manipulated this whole time. Fucking pathetic how dumb we are.
Well, lots of tankies, “centrists”, and of course nearly all Republicans seem to think that concerns about Russia going back to 2016’s election are a “hoax”.
I don’t know if they could even begin to articulate what they think that word means in the context of their claims. But they sure are butthurt about it.
It wasn’t just based on IP from what I understand, but also what country’s app store you used.
I could be wrong here, but unless you’re actively trying to hide something pretty serious, I’d be surprised if people use a VPN and set it to a country like Nigeria or Bangladesh if you’re from NA.
Maybe Canada if you’re from the USA, likely other states, or maybe somewhere in the EU if you think their data protection laws will be better for you.
But Nigeria? Who fuck sets their VPN there?
I know I’ve had to try several countries before I found Invidious instances that would work over a VPN. It seems that there are a few European countries that work, though.
( I guess I don’t understand enough about how Invidious works, but I sure don’t think that Alphabet needs to track my views of random videos. )