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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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Post by anonymars »

Zigurd wrote: post #13

This is another piece of a mosaic that is going to reveal that grey zone warfare by Russia against the west has much larger scope than most people are aware of. The UK National Crime Agency uncovered a huge money laundering enterprise based on the kinds of crime that fly under the national security radar in most places.

Indeed. Can I interest you in the good old USA project? https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-d...

See exhibit 8 and such: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1366201/dl

Or 10 which specifically talks about Twitter https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1366191/dl

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

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Post by duskwuff »

tehjoker wrote: post #2

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 us accounts might be identified as foreign

Speculation: they're resolving historical IP addresses against a current IP geolocation database. An IP which belonged to a US company in 2010 may have since been sold to a Nigerian ISP, but that doesn't mean that the user behind that IP in 2010 was actually in Nigeria.

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

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Post by lurk2 »

Zigurd wrote: post #13

This is another piece of a mosaic that is going to reveal that grey zone warfare by Russia against the west has much larger scope than most people are aware of. The UK National Crime Agency uncovered a huge money laundering enterprise based on the kinds of crime that fly under the national security radar in most places.

> This is another piece of a mosaic that is going to reveal that grey zone warfare by Russia against the west has much larger scope than most people are aware of.

Are you people ever going to let this idea go? Almost all of this activity is coming out of India, Israel, and Nigeria. Russia isn’t mentioned once in the article.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

exegete wrote: post #16
neaden wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I doubt for the most part it's people being hired. I think mostly it's probably people in low income countries who make a living posting as different identity on social media.

How are they making a living posting political propaganda of they aren’t hired?

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

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Post by energy123 »

exegete wrote: post #16
neaden wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I doubt for the most part it's people being hired. I think mostly it's probably people in low income countries who make a living posting as different identity on social media.

How are they making a living posting political propaganda of they aren’t hired?

Advertising revenue directly from X, posting affiliate links to products or gambling/crypto sites, and directly asking followers for money. Or they're being paid by clandestine operations such as Internet Research Agency.

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

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Post by colechristensen »

tehjoker wrote: post #2

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

These aren't like a single real person pretending to be Americans because of their deep interst in American politics.

These are paid astroturfers probably more like call centers, paid for presumably by all sorts of interests from foreign intelligence services, to businesses (or select executives), to internal political groups or politicians trying to manipulate public opinion.

Both political extremes are suffering from this kind of manipulation where real concerns are twisted and amplified for lets say the more gullible half of the population (gullibility knows know political alignment exclusively). The excluded middle is afraid of the people who have been manipulated this way (death threats also know no political boundaries).

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

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Post by andybak »

protocolture wrote: post #3

Walk 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.

I might have a very different reading of the parable of the cave to you?

Can you elaborate? (At the risk of spoiling the joke)

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

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Post by iamshs »

Why couldn't you get any other news media than the HindustanTimes.com; a plainly unhealthy Indian news blog to be consumed. We Indians have to suffer it because we have few options, it's amazing when these unreliable sites are given SEO boost on here too...
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