Americans are encouraged to hesitate to trust mainstream media as they’ve lied repeatedly about major issues — COVID being one of the worst cases — and protected powerful political figures by smearing dissident voices.

But the alternative of social media as the town square for free-flowing information has proven just as (or more) propagandistic and fake.

This information pipeline has introduced a huge problem by allowing foreigners to sway debate and give a false impression of American consensus on policy desires and political movements.

Social media platform X just made the geolocation of every account public, providing the user’s region or exact country and revealing if the person is hiding his or her location with a virtual private network.

With this new feature, everyone in the X political space quickly realized many prominent voices and proselytizers are pretending to be American or in the West, for financial gain or to sway discussion for foreign benefits.

Even the @American account — now suspended — was based in Pakistan!

Clearly, users inject themselves into American political discussion without disclosing they’re outsiders and creating false impressions about our country’s politics.

I’ve known for years everyone cares about what’s happening in America; in many cases, people follow our politics more closely than they do their homeland’s.

The excuse is always they’re invested in our drama because what happens here will eventually........

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