Here is something that does not happen very often: a disinformation detection firm best known for tracking wartime propaganda campaigns and election interference turning its attention to a rapper's X account. But that is exactly what Cyabra, an Israeli outfit that counts Elon Musk and Pepsi among its past clients, has done — and what it found has landed squarely in the middle of one of the messiest collisions of hip-hop, MAGA politics and algorithmic manipulation in recent memory.
The firm identified 18,784 fake accounts — roughly 33% of the 55,469 profiles that engaged with 51 political posts on Nicki Minaj's X account between 11 November and 28 December 2025. That is three to four times the industry baseline for inauthentic activity in organic social media discourse, which Cyabra puts at between 7 and 10 per cent.
