X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run
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#2is there any technical reason why us accounts might be identified as foreign or is this really a foreign play or us people hiring ppl outside the country
Re: X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run
#3Walk willingly into platos cave, pay for platos cave verification, sit down, enjoy all the discourse on the wall. Spit your drink out when you figure out that the shadows on the wall are all fake.
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#5is there any technical reason why us accounts might be identified as foreign or is this really a foreign play or us people hiring ppl outside the country
Because they're all from other countries. It's really not that deep
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#6is there any technical reason why us accounts might be identified as foreign or is this really a foreign play or us people hiring ppl outside the country
> is there any technical reason why
with the development capability remaining at twitter anything is possible.
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#7X obviously isn't the only platform where this is taking place and it is curious as to why they rolled it back.
how open are you to a US citizen verified town square online? You'd have to scan your passport or driver license to post memes and stuff.
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#8is there any technical reason why us accounts might be identified as foreign or is this really a foreign play or us people hiring ppl outside the country
To a billionaire, hiring a few hundred Nigerians to upvote and share their propaganda is so cheap that it’s like you buying a cup of coffee.
They use professional paid services from these low labour cost countries all the time for publicity or to control the narrative.
By some estimates 20-60% of everything you see on social media is generated by a bot farm, depending on the forum in question. An analysis of Reddit showed some subreddits are 80% AI generated.
Re: X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run
#9is there any technical reason why us accounts might be identified as foreign or is this really a foreign play or us people hiring ppl outside the country
Because they're all from other countries. It's really not that deep
Turns out that if you pay users for engagement then users will post whatever gets the most engagement, regardless of whether it's true. Who could have forseen this.
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#10It truly is the sewer of the internet.