X reveals fake MAGA accounts run by foreign bot farms

Elon Musk’s platform X just dropped a bombshell and Washington is still scrambling to process it.

Over the weekend, X (formerly Twitter) rolled out a new feature called “About This Account,” designed to increase transparency by revealing an account’s location, join date, and username history. The result? Chaos.

Within hours, X users learned what many had long suspected: a shocking number of supposedly “MAGA” accounts loud, aggressive, and ultra-nationalistic weren’t American at all. They were being operated out of Russia, Nigeria, India, Thailand, Pakistan, and beyond.

Let that sink in: the accounts pretending to be red-blooded Trump patriots were actually foreign-run bot farms using “America First” slogans as bait.

According to X’s head of product, Nikita Bier, an update is already being pushed to make location tracking “nearly 99.99%” accurate. The implications are devastating for both national security and the online conservative movement.

Here’s what the new transparency has exposed:

• Foreign actors posing as MAGA influencers, often using AI-generated personas to imitate American conservatives

• Bot networks pushing anti-Israel propaganda, claiming to be Gazan journalists while operating from Pakistan and Bangladesh

• Coordinated misinformation surges following high-profile U.S. events, including terror attacks, shootings, and political scandals

• Fake accounts attacking Trump, often immediately after his rift with Elon Musk, revealing their true anti-MAGA intentions

As researchers from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) explained, these cyber operations follow a three-phase cycle:

1. Identify: Target a political audience or crisis moment

2. Imitate: Adopt the language, branding, and messaging of that group

3. Amplify: Rapidly spread divisive or false content to fracture communities

In one case, a single activation window produced 650,000 posts pushing false-flag narratives, garnering 4 million interactions many fueled by foreign propaganda networks. These fake MAGA accounts weren’t trying to help Donald Trump. They were weaponizing his movement to destabilize it from within.

Even worse, the same strategy was used to pose as anti-Israel activists, raising fake donations, impersonating Middle Eastern journalists, and sowing discord during the Gaza conflict. Behind the avatars? Users in Bangladesh, Turkey, and even American-based operatives acting as signal boosters.

This isn’t a partisan issue it’s a national security crisis. The U.S. political system is being gamed by bad actors exploiting our openness, our divisions, and our trust. They’re not just targeting the Right. They’re mimicking it, distorting it, and using it as a Trojan horse to rip the country apart.

For years, conservatives were told that complaints about “bots” were just excuses used by the Left. Now we know: they were real. And many of them weren’t on the Left they were impersonating the Right.

This is the new face of cyber warfare. Not tanks. Not missiles. But fake accounts flying digital American flags and hijacking patriotism for foreign ends.

Elon Musk's move to expose them is bold, necessary, and long overdue. But it’s also a wake-up call: we’re in a global information war, and too many Americans are unknowingly helping the enemy win.

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