When Elon Musk made public the actual location of where every account originated, it exposed the excessive amount of bot farms and foreigners trying to infiltrate and influence America and Americans. White supremacist provocateur Nick Fuentes was just exposed for using these foreign accounts and bot farms to artificially inflate his popularity and reach.

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, his claimed nemesis, Nick Fuentes’s retweets and views skyrocketed. Those of us on the Right watched with trepidation and concern, fearing that a rise in antisemitic American young people was becoming the newest trend. We were already seeing what radical leftists are doing to destroy their own party and the country, and thanks to clowns like Fuentes, the shadow image was rising on the Right.

Or so we were led to believe.

It turns out that bot farms and foreign actors manufactured the Groyper rise and reach. Side note: Groyper is the name that Fuentes’s white supremacist followers call themselves. While I’m not claiming that Fuentes doesn’t have a fan base and a following, the data presented in a recently released report suggest that his influence is manufactured, manipulated, and excessively overblown.

The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) conducted a forensic analysis of his views, retweets, engagement, and mainstream media amplification, and what it found was startling. According to its report summary, “Nick Fuentes’s surge into national visibility did not originate from a broad or sudden shift in American political sentiment. It emerged from a pattern of online amplification that was unusually fast, unusually concentrated, and unusually foreign in origin.”

According to the report, there were five main findings. First, his early retweets were artificially manufactured. It exceeds legitimate reach. Here is a visual comparison of the reach of those with similar follower counts (and Elon Musk):

NCRI then drilled down: 61% of all Fuentes retweets in the first 30 minutes came from accounts that did this repeatedly across multiple posts. pic.twitter.com/NGbxVzNAN4

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) December 8, 2025

The report also found that 61% of all his early retweeters were repeat retweeters, almost as if this was their sole job.

Roughly 92% of his retweet army is with anonymous or dedicated Groyper accounts (no names, no faces, just ideological trolls).

Approximately half of his retweet army hails from foreign countries, many of which are infamous for cheap bot farms (like India, Pakistan, Malaysia, etc.).

Finally, and perhaps most infamously, Fuentes has been platformed and stylized by mainstream media.

While the synthetic engagement engine was accelerating, mainstream media began responding to the manipulated visibility, trying to paint him as the new “Charlie Kirk”.

Mainstream press mentions of Fuentes tripled after September 2025, and “high-status” framing of him in articles… pic.twitter.com/8x1RrV434s

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) December 8, 2025

He is garnering airtime and riding the coattails of others, followed by being platformed and tacitly promoted by the likes of Tucker Carlson. He also recently appeared on Piers Morgan’s show. The British journalist handled Fuentes more professionally than Carlson by actually pushing back on his ideas. The best quote from that exchange might be Morgan’s summary of Fuente’s view of women. Morgan stated, “I think that when a 27-year-old guy who has never gotten laid, never had a meaningful relationship with a woman, says women aren’t allowed to vote, they should stay at home, that all they do is fantasize about getting raped and beaten up, that’s what they want, that they’re annoying, that they get fat, that they get ugly — that’s a misogynist.”

Since the NCRI report has come out, Fuentes has dismissed the findings by claiming, “The NCRI is a rebrand of the ADL [Anti-Defamation League], they have all the same personnel. The ADL is in denial about the new reality, which is that I am the number one political livestreamer in America, so they call the numbers fake. Unlike the shills on the right who support Israel, I have actual fans.”

NCRI is affiliated with the ADL, which indicates possible bias; it does not diminish the research, undermine the data, or invalidate the findings.

There is something suspicious about the excessive reach Fuentes has in the wake of Kirk’s murder, and NCRI may have uncovered the key to ensuring that reach exceeds Fuentes’s grasp. If Fuente’s influence is not legitimate, perhaps other extreme figures’ reach is not legitimate either. Perhaps someone should look into Candace Owens. If the report’s findings are accurate — and there is little evidence to suggest otherwise — Fuentes violated X’s policy and shouldn’t be surprised if he is kicked off the platform.