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Top MAGA Influencers on X/Twitter Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls (www.thedailybeast.com)
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[โ€“] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Who would have to know what? Foreign actors hardly require the administration's permission to engage in propaganda.

[โ€“] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 2 points 8 hours ago

The people planning the update to X, IT staff don't tend to make changes to public facing interfaces without having some level of an idea what that change is going to bring.

Given the tendency for a lot of political talk on there, and the owners recent adventures in doge land I can't believe someone hadn't looked into this before pushing to prod.