@stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social
Lecturer in Digital Media Sociology. PhD in Journalism and US media. Researching digital streaming culture, political communication and authenticity.
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
Damning.
23.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 178 🔁 53 💬 7 📌 5
A Twitter account called Ivanka News tweets an AI image of a young woman wearing Muslim garb. The woman is holding a sign that says "I came here illegally. Should I be deported?" Ivanka News writes: What is your response to this person ?? In the "About this account" tab, it appears the account is based in Nigeria
An account called MAGA scope writes: Who, in your view is the great enemy of the United States? Communism, Islam, Democratic Party, or Satan? The account is based in Nigeria.
An account called MAGA Nadine writes: You go to work and find this. What would you do? The attached pic is an AI image that shows a microwave. The microwave has a sign that says "For religious reasons, this microwave is now making halal food only." The account is based in Morocco.
An account called America First posts an AI image of Tulsi Gabbard. They wrote: How would you rate your trust in Tulsi Gabbard on a scale of 1-10?
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
Between this and the whole grok gassing up elon thing it’s been an amazing week for new features on x dot com
22.11.2025 22:19 — 👍 92 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 1I mean, technically his 'unfavourable' numbers are some of the highest of his career....
22.11.2025 13:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Framing his dangerous unhinged views as “challenge scientific orthodoxy” is not responsible journalism.
It employs the ‘conflict frame’ to suggest there is a legitimate debate to be had here.
There isn’t.
Purely a political move to position herself for a post-Trump era.
Will be in the wilderness for a bit but will reemerge with the hopes people will have forgotten just how awful she was.
What would be a funny outcome from this meeting is if parts of the MAGA movement start to question Trump's senility and whether he's started to lose his mind/got dementia.
It's so clear that Trump's views are solely based on who ever he last spoke to and nothing else.
House Republicans refused to condemn fascism just a few days ago
newrepublic.com/post/203347/...
Social media isn’t driving the teenage “loneliness epidemic”. Teenagers’ loneliness was the same in the 1970s,1980s, and 1990s long before anyone heard of TikTok or smartphones.
21.11.2025 19:33 — 👍 246 🔁 50 💬 0 📌 9
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Dumb, stupid moral panic nonsense.
21.11.2025 16:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
EXC: Cross-party MPs and peers are demanding that Ofcom investigate a surge in violent antisemitism on X
They cite research that suggests the content violates the Online Safety Act
American people re-elected Trump so they could professional women "piggy"?
20.11.2025 19:06 — 👍 546 🔁 86 💬 46 📌 11I’ve seen some suggest that after the 2026 mid-terms Trump becomes politically irrelevant to elected official and so they may start to break with him.
I doubt this. It’s a cult. Even when he shuffles off this mortal coil, the GOP may become a version of a necrocracy.
There is simply no accountability or consequences for him any more.
The GOP and most institutions are not only happy to let him do and say whatever he wants, but will actively defend it.
They are fearful of the mad king.
I do not know how American politics, specifically the right wing, puts this type of toothpaste back in the tube.
There is basically no action or rhetoric that results in accountability today. There are no political consequences for anything.
Hateful lunatic has no friends.
Shocker.
i will kind of accept this from some random person who barely pays attention. ben shapiro though? he's just lying
18.11.2025 19:41 — 👍 12015 🔁 1370 💬 309 📌 45
Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite.
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
I personally am going to invest up to* £1 Trillion into Anthropic
*(actual amount will be 20p)
"Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen."
When people said this about Charlie Kirk, the right wing lost their mind and called for people to lose their job over it.
Meanwhile her ex husband is selling out to fascists, burning money on AI wrecking the public sphere and treating many of the workers that prop up his business empire like total shit.
17.11.2025 18:55 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Two unlikeable dweebs who woefully try to pretend they are 'alpha' when they are in fact some of the least charismatic or principled beta cucks in US politics.
Can't wait.
A plague on all your houses... but what happens next?
17.11.2025 10:50 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 0Some Labour MPs this morning:
17.11.2025 10:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
