Twitter accidently fucks MAGA accounts

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  1. Nova

    Nova livin on the edge of the ledge Writer

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    They changed a setting which shows the origin location of any account (this probably won't last) and shock - SHOCK! - a ton of the vocal MAGA "influence" accounts (debatable how much reach many of them have) are not based in any U.S. territory (a lot of Nigeria apparently)

    Lot of folks been saying MAGA and/or QAnon was a deliberate psi-op all along and this adds a loy of fuel to that accusation.

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  2. Ten Lubak

    Ten Lubak Uh huh....

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    It's not just MAGA accounts, it seems a huge amount of Twitter is completely full of shit

    Makes sense when you think about it. When Elon, with another one of his incredible ideas, monetized engagement on Twitter he invited this sort of thing

    Looks at where these accounts are posting from - Nigeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan....people struggle to make $300 USD a month in these places

    All of a sudden you have a system where bad actors, with very little effort, can profit

    Fucking social media man.......just an absolute disaster

    My only hope is that we learn from this and discount pretty much everything that is said online by Twitter accounts. But that won't happen
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    I mean, you aren't WRONG, but it's cute you think bad actors profiting with very little effort is limited to poor countries.

    I mean, look at Tru... oh, hang on.
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    There are also ways to manipulate this, apparently.

    I wonder if Wordforge had such a feature, if it would carry any surprises. (I'm not from North Korea, I swear!)
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  5. Ten Lubak

    Ten Lubak Uh huh....

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    I don't think that though. I'm just talking about this specific example

    Remember to turn your location off otherwise everyone will know you're actually a chav from Blackpool :)
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