There's a meme that most "nationalist" Twitter/X posters in the UK are actually from South Asia, and only doing it because for people in low-income countries the Twitter payments are a viable source of income.

I'm not on Twitter anymore thankfully, but when I was there seemed to be a lot of truth to this. It even got to the point of there being successful witch hunts outing quite large/popular accounts as being Indian people pretending to be British

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dmix 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Which led Twitter to release a feature allowing you to see which country accounts were originally made which confirmed a lot of suspicions about Indian/Pakistan accounts positing politics stuff because it goes viral and pays. Other sites would benefit from that sort of feature to at least set the bar higher.

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giarc 29 minutes ago | parent [-]

Didn't they almost immediately retract that after it became clear so many of the GOP adjacent accounts were based offshore?

	▲	dmix 16 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No they released the feature. The more controversial part was X also announced they’d start a large ban campaign to kill off foreign accounts posting stuff low quality politics memes like this just for money. This got push back as a bunch of big accounts claiming it would create false positive bans and they had legitimate interest in the topics despite not being American etc. I didn’t follow it closely after that but I believe it still led to some foreign accounts being banned, just not at the scale Nikita Bier wanted. “Just ban them” is admittedly more complicated than it sounds once you think about it. Ie what about Canadians who post about American politics all the time. Or is it just low quality Indian accounts. How do you measure quality. Etc
	▲	trumpdong 17 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They did.

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Bluescreenbuddy 6 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

South Asia and africa. There's a reason he bought twitter and let any bozo buy verification. The money they make goes a long way in low income countries.

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miki123211 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On the other hand... on the internet, everybody is an American (or a Brit).

There are many people who don't live in a country where English is spoken natively, but who speak it well enough to lurk on the English internet. Those people are exposed to American and British politics and start to form opinions. It's not unusual for us to have our own takes on what happens in these countries.

	▲	vintermann 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		But we don't pretend to be something we're not.

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throwthrowuknow 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Makes sense for the UK since if you post the same content as a citizen you could end up with the police at your door.

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graemep 12 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The same on Facebook, and its a very profitable:

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-11-16/kin...

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TZubiri 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

X famously implemented a feature that revelaed where the posters were from. Sure you can use a VPN, but Musk changed the rules all of a sudden and exposed a lot of accounts posting about issues from other countries.

Twitter may have a lot of faults, but they're ahead of Facebook on this one.

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ifwinterco 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think the difference is Elon is actually a Twitter addict and he's genuinely on there every day engaging with this stuff, so he probably saw the memes.

I get the sense Zuckerberg is a lot more disconnected from everyday Facebook and Insta content

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TZubiri 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Which is actually healthier, like a drug dealer that doesn't consume his own product

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trumpdong 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Healthier for him, unhealthier for society that is forced to suffer the effects of mass consumption of his product.

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	▲	Forgeties79 15 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Nothing we have seen since musk‘s acquisition of Twitter indicates that his close proximity/high usage has led to better results for society.

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suslik 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Healthier - perhaps, although I do prefer when my dealers use the same product they sell to me.

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drysine 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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cyanydeez an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's pretty amazing corporate america was able to find a revenue scheme based on Russian disinformation campaigns, init.

	▲	dev1ycan 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's more like astroturfing since forever, any mention of Americans doing disinformation instantly gets Russian bots brought up, like bro come on now.

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gambiting 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean I'm not sure it's a meme - this guy literally got rich doing it, to a point where he's selling "self guide" courses on how to do this:

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-11-16/kin...

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vintermann 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

People selling get rich guides did not get rich using the method they describe. But I don't doubt a lot of people try, with or without guides to help them.

	▲	gambiting 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well I think both things can be true. I imagine he made a lot of money doing it, then eventually that well dried up for whatever reason, so he started selling courses (which are worthless because his method clearly doesn't work or he would just keep doing it)

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ifwinterco 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Definitely a real thing, I meant it was a meme in the sense that at one point almost everyone was getting accused of being Indian (and subsequently having to refute it) in a partly humorous but also partly serious way

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delta_p_delta_x 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You know what? I ain't even mad. 300k is life-changing money in Sri Lanka.

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firen777 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Some highlights:

> The move made him a mint — and Sam was soon raking in thousands of dollars a month.

> “I was spending maybe 30 to 50 minutes of my day, and I was making good money for a medical student,” he recalled.

> He said he also attempted to make a liberal counterpart for Hart on Instagram, but “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much,” he said.

The effort-to-profit ratio is so insane that you almost can't blame them for turning the internet into such toxic wasteland.

	▲	Mallory_Ringess an hour ago \| parent [-]
		There's also the fact that the media and a large cadre of activists in the targeted countries already provide the 'democrat' standpoint which makes an AI simulacrum less noticeable as well as less appealing. I'd say that is a far more likely explanation than 'democrats know it is AI slop' which sounds a lot like wishful thinking by 'democrats'.