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.

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    18 hours ago

    I’m not sure I can believe that Elon thought this wouldn’t have a downside. He had to know so many right-wing chud accounts weren’t US based.

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      Maybe he just weighed the ups/downs for the moment. He didn’t have the bot farms up trying to convince people to vote for Trump and sway public opinion anymore maybe. Maybe he made the call that exposing accounts and introducing the idea he can expose them a threat to any political upstarts wanting to take the next monarchy grasp. He can expose the accounts he wants, while spending less money having to combat any political opposition that may want to run similar campaign tactics that they used.

      There are members who wanted to go further into “America first” bologna, maybe he realized that won’t be beneficial for him long term finally

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      I was assuming he did this as a way to expose the already-marginalized or something. Did he have a reason for doing this?