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I agree it is a good thing.

These so-called "America First" and "MEGA" accounts have been driving a wedge within the conservative party for a while. Many speculated that these were largely foreign accounts, but it was hard to prove, until now.

Many of the racist "conservative" voices are being shown to be from Iran or other countries.



During the 2016 election, it was big in the news that a whole ring of fake-news social media accounts and news websites was run out of North Macedonia.[0] And not out of nefarious meddling in American internal affairs, but because the men involved knew American culture well enough to know that riling up readers in a wealthy but politically polarized country could bring in profit. How fast that story was forgotten.

[0]https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science...


There are plenty outside of Iran too… :)




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