Evening Edition: Top MAGA Influencers On 'X' Found To Be Foreign Based

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This week, Elon Musk’s social media platform 'X' announced they launched a new feature that makes it possible for users to view the country of origin of any account, and almost immediately, some of the most corrosive users claiming to be Americans have turned out not to be. The new feature revealed accounts claiming to be 'MAGA' and 'ULTRAMAGA' are based in Africa, Macedonia, India and the Mideast. What can we do to fight back against these massive information and misinformation operations aimed at our minds? FOX’s Eben Brown speaks with Max Lesser, senior analyst on emerging threats at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies' Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, who explains the function of this new feature and what these foreign accounts aim to do. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.6	Monday, November 24th, 2025, I'm Eben Brown.
0:42.5	You can now see from which country an account on the ex-social media platform is posting.
0:49.4	And it is revealing that a bunch of accounts pushing American political discourse online are not even from here.
0:57.3	It's a huge step in the right direction. I hope people just wake up, realize, hey, I shouldn't
1:01.6	trust everything I see on social media, even someone who's saying they're an American, might not
1:05.9	be an American, and also to encourage platforms themselves and the U.S. government to investigate these campaigns
1:14.8	to covertly manipulate the opinion of Americans.
1:18.9	This is the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition.
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