"A supply chain for chaos that starts in Moscow and Tehran and Beijing, runs through bot farms in industrial parks outside St. Petersburg or the Pardis Technology Park north of Tehran, or some Nigerian click farm, or a Chinese-criminal-owned social media and tech scam prison in the wilds of Burma, bounces off a rage-merchant influencer 'from Ohio' who has never set foot in America, and ends up in your pissed off MAGA uncle’s Facebook feed as a 'patriotic truth.'”
"MAGA is a foreign influence operation.
Not 'incidental to MAGA,' not 'touching it,' not 'nudging it,' not 'occasionally exploiting it.' MAGA is a foreign influence operation, root and branch."
~ Rick Wilson
#Trump #MAGA #bots #SocialMedia #trolls #TrollFarms #Russia #Nigeria #Bangladesh #Thailand
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/maga-is-a-foreign-influence-op
@Free_Press #AgentKrasnov was put into power by #Putin and his #Disinformation and #Propaganda apparatus ranging from #Trollfarms to #RT and from #Shitposters to #FoxNews!
Meidas Touch offers a zingy (and instructive) rundown on the discovery that a large percentage of "Make America First" online troll and bot accounts which claim to be operating in the USA actually operate from places like Russia, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Thailand.
P.S. Note that my linking to any particular platform — e.g., Instagram — does not indicate endorsement of that platform.
A new Twitter feature has revealed that many prominent MAGA accounts are actually controlled by foreign actors, sparking concerns about online disinformation and foreign influence. The feature, which discloses the country of origin of an account, has exposed accounts based in countries like India, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. This raises questions about the authenticity of online conversations and the spread of misinformation. Join the discussion and learn more about the implications of this discovery.
"The debut of these new X location labels has exposed just how deeply foreign actors are embedded in the American political conversation, and how often they amplify pro-Trump, pro-MAGA narratives designed to divide Americans and distort our democracy. What the platform once treated as speculation is now visible in plain sight."
#Trump #MAGA #Twitter #X #trolls #TrollFarms #bots #disinformation
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"Over the weekend, Donald Trump amplified posts from pro-Trump X accounts that the platform identifies as operating from outside the United States. Two of the four accounts were identified as potentially masking their true location through VPNs. ...
Trump spent the weekend amplifying political messages originating from these accounts that X itself identifies as foreign or potentially foreign-based."
~ Meidas
#Trump #MAGA #Twitter #X #trolls #TrollFarms #bots
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/trump-amplified-foreign-based-accounts
@EugeneMcParland ”The troll farm doesn’t hand the influencer a bag of cash, but it artificially boosts their key performance indicators (KPIs), which the influencer then converts into revenue. In other words, the infrastructure is a covert subsidy of visibility and thus a form of payment.”
What we know from #Facebook being the #unmoderated #DumpsterFire in terms of #politics is that their "#neutrality" empowers #aggressors like #Disinformation campaigns from #Russia and will amplify #racists, #fascists and #reactionaries with their #RageBait and #Hatespeech!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPyJBJTHyO0&t=4747s video via @tantacrul
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