Link: https://www.wired.com/story/a-white-house-staffer-appears-to-run-massive-pro-trump-meme-page/

A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

To its audience, Johnny MAGA looked like an independent voice, another outraged supporter in the MAGA media ecosystem. The account regularly boosts Trump’s Truth Social posts and goes to bat for the administration, attacking Democrats like California governor Gavin Newsom.

But this isn’t just a regular account. Johnny MAGA appears to actually be a White House staffer named Garrett Wade who works for the Trump administration as a rapid response manager, helping to run the very same White House account his anonymous MAGA account amplifies. A phone number associated with Wade is linked to Johnny MAGA, according to a WIRED review of publicly available records, and the connection was confirmed by a source close to the White House.

Sock puppets all the way down. Who knew?!?!?

I’m just surprised he wasn’t an employee of the Russian government.

I assumed they were all required to do this

You don't say. Isn't it for things like this why fElon bought Xitter?

It certainly was not about "free speech maximalism" or "making comedy legal again", no matter what fElon and his dumb fanboiz might say.

Sad and funny at the same time how the right is entirely dependent on billions of dollars for online psyops or else their entire ideology just fades away

Is like that old thing about if your ideas are wrong they need constant reinforcement. Basically Fox News