Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors.

The new ā€œAbout This Accountā€ feature, which became available to X users on Friday, allows others to see where an account is based, when they joined the platform, how often they have changed their username, and how they downloaded the X app.

Dozens of major accounts masquerading as ā€œAmerica Firstā€ or ā€œMAGAā€ proponents have been identified as originating in places such as Russia, India, and Nigeria.

In one example, the account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading ā€œPatriot Voice for We The Peopleā€ā€”is actually based in Eastern Europe.

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    9 hours ago

    this might be surprising to the privacy paranoids that don’t want verified and validated online accounts so that authentic online interactions can sweep away the russian bots