New Twitter Feature Reveals That Profitable “MAGA” Accounts Are Actually Scammers From the Developing World Cashing in on Gullible Americans

Elon Musk’s social media echo chamber X-formerly-Twitter introduced a new feature over the weekend that shows the location where its users have been tweeting from — a move that has exposed an embarrassing problem for the social network: that many of its most politically inflammatory users are actually foreign scammers cashing in on gullible and outrage-hungry Americans.

As the New York Times reports, it didn’t take long for online sleuths to notice that accounts that post MAGA ragebait weren’t actually tweeting from the United States; instead, they’re based in Eastern Europe, Thailand, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and other parts of the world, often linked to online scams and schemes.

For instance, one account that pays for the platform’s blue checkmark “verification” service, called “MAGA NATIO