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X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run

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Re: X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run

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is 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

Re: X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run

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is 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.

Re: X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run

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X 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.

Re: X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run

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is 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

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is 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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