US EditionNicki Minaj’s Social Media Reportedly Amplified by 18,000 Bots
Cyabra found nearly 19,000 fake accounts amplified 51 political posts on Nicki Minaj’s X, accounting for 33% of engagement during her political shift in late 2025.
- Cyabra, Israeli disinformation detection firm, found 18,784 fake accounts—roughly 33% of 55,469 profiles engaging with 51 political posts between 11 November and 28 December 2025, and the report does not accuse Nicki Minaj directly.
- Her timeline shows Minaj began posting aggressively for Trump in November, appeared at AmericaFest in December, and joined Trump at the Treasury Summit on 28 January 2026.
- Cyabra's analysis found fake accounts clustered in the 25-to-34 age bracket posted in tight bursts, many had boosted Minaj's music posts before, while Dom Lucre and Matt Wallace amplified similar content overlapping with Turning Point USA.
- Two Cyabra board members tied to Minaj's rivals, while Alex Bruesewitz rejected the report and Cardi B protested, saying `Listen, you involved me in something that has nothing to do with me`.
- The shift is notable because Cyabra, an Israeli disinformation detection firm with clients like Elon Musk and Pepsi, found 56% of comments on 26 December were fake and unknown funders remain.
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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 algori…
Research by the website Politico and the disinformation detection company Cyabra has revealed that popular rapper and singer Nicki Minaj's political posts are being amplified by an army of bots.
The platform Cyabra wants to have found out that Nicki Minaj's transformation into a Trump follower was fueled by bots. They are said to have spread the rapper's hymns of praise.
"Rapper" will have thousands of false accounts to distribute and give greater visibility to its publications, according to a company specialized in detecting "bots" activity on social networks.
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