White supremacist Nick Fuentes doesn’t seem to mind benefiting from bot farms in Pakistan, India and Nigeria promoting his content, The Post has learned.
A new analysis of the Holocaust-denying firebrand’s tweets shows they are boosted online by an army of foreign bots, mostly originating in countries that want to destabilize the US, according to an investigation.
Fuentes’ sudden apparent surge in popularity over the last year is faked based on “algorithmic amplification” powered by bot farms, according to Network Contagion Research Institute, a nonprofit that studies extremism on the internet.
Nick Fuentes is powered by bot farms in Pakistan, India and Malaysia, among other anti-Western countries, according to a new report by the Network Contagion Research Institute. Timcast IRL/YouTubeThey point to how Fuentes appears to outperform X owner Elon Musk, even though he has a fraction of Musk’s 239 million followers, with just 1.1 million.
“It is not organic. It is coordinated amplification and it is how a fringe figure gains the appearance of national relevance,” a senior NCRI researcher told The Post.
The exposure of this was made possible by X’s new location tool, which shows where every active account is based: It reveals that most of Fuentes’ following is in Africa and Asia, despite his commentary centering around the US.
NCRI says that Fuentes himself is involved in the coordination of the bots. “His manipulated reach is not accidental,” the report says. “Transcripts reveal hundreds of real-time commands to ‘retweet this’ and ‘retweet me,’ establishing raid-style amplification as a core operating method.”
Nick Fuentes, who regularly invokes Adolf Hitler in his speeches, exponentially increased his online presence after the death of Turning Point co-founder Charlie Kirk in September. Nathan Posner/ShutterstockThe report also said that the “directed raids” laid the groundwork for “consistent X policy violations by the anonymous and foreign network now amplifying him.”
In a previous report, the nonprofit also noted that even before Musk took over Twitter in October, 2022, the Groypers, an online Gen-Z Neo-Nazi group affiliated with Fuentes, launched a takeover of the platform in an effort to spread antisemitism.
Fuentes, 27, is a Holocaust denier, who described “Zionist Jews” as enemies of the conservative movement in an appearance on the Tucker Carlson Network in October.
“The NCRI is a rebrand of the ADL, they have all the same personnel,” Fuentes told The Post, referring to the Anti-Defamation League. “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.”
The December 5 X thread shows Nick Fuentes with markedly more “views” on his tweet than Elon Musk, who has more than 229 million X followers. Fuentes has 1.1 million followers on X, which is owned by Musk. The post, showing the number of views, was taken down 24 hours after it was posted by X. Elon Musk/X
X users have commented about Nick Fuentes’ foreign bot followers. Elon Musk/XFuentes’ online profile jumped exponentially after the assassination of Turning Point co-founder Charlie Kirk in September, the report says.
Media outlets replaced grainy screenshots of Fuentes with studio prints, making the activist look like “someone with national momentum,” according to the report, which added that he was actually backed by a mixture of anonymous extremists and “foreign amplifiers” who used him as a vehicle to spread anti-American rhetoric.
“Fuentes did not have a massive following,” said the researcher. “What he had was manipulated engagement. The failure came when media outlets treated that distortion as real and elevated him as if he represented a major force. They gave prominence to a signal they never verified.”
In October, Nick Fuentes did a long interview with media personality Tucker Carlson, repeating many of his antisemitic views. Tucker Carlson/YoutubeThe NCRI report is gaining momentum in the online tech community, where one expert says Fuentes is effectively leading a bot army to go after President Trump’s Make America Great Again movement.
“Everything in this report matches well-known destabilization tactics used by foreign actors: Identify a counter-elite, amplify them artificially and weaponize real grievances into a feedback loop that fractures the target movement from within,” said DataRepublican, an anonymous data scientist who ferrets out alleged corruption and waste within the US government.
“And now this playbook is being applied to MAGA itself. People have speculated about foreign influence with Fuentes for a while, but X’s location feature finally provided the empirical signal that exposed this operation.”






