New from 404 Media: X has shown where accounts are actually being run from, revealing many MAGA accounts are actually grifters in Eastern Europe, Asia, etc. But the situation is much, much worse. Entire guides specifically on how to squeeze US audiences with AI.

https://www.404media.co/americas-polarization-has-become-the-worlds-side-hustle/

America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle

The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

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@josephcox "For the most part, the only ‘psyop’ here is one being run on social media users by social media companies themselves in search of getting more ad revenue by any means necessary. "

Such a valid point. It is not the Low-Income-Country poors that want Death to America, they just want the money. If they had no incentive to publish slop, they wouldn't. And maybe then it would be easier to investigate, tackle, attribute the adversarial/propaganda/malicious actors.

However both things ago against maximizing profits and the platforms have lobbied themselves to be ungovernable so here we are  .