DAVID MARCUS: Only you can stop the foreign info operations Elon Musk just exposed

Elon Musk's X platform reveals foreign cyberattacks using fake American accounts, exposing how insidious social media manipulation threatens national security.

As I wrote about in this column back in June, the MAGA movement, in particular, has been targeted recently by foreign influence seeking to break it apart. David Marcus is a columnist living in West Virginia and the author of "Charade: The COVID Lies That Crushed A Nation."

One fake account called itself "ULTRAMAGA us TRUMPus2028," (with American flags in the name) and claimed to be based in Washington, D.C., but is actually listed as being based in Africa. Another, now-deleted, was "Trump Is My President" listed in Macedonia. A very patriotic account named @American, had a profile picture with a bald eagle over an American flag, but it is, as it turns out, based in South Asia. 

We’ve known since the aftermath of the 2016 election that malign foreign governments have used fake social media accounts to sow discord. In one example from the Mueller Report, a fake Russian account organized an actual, physical political rally in America.