Blowback and the international troll industry

Why are so many Twitter reactionaries from outside of the United States?

For a few hours yesterday Twitter users got a brief glimpse into the secretive world of anonymous online reactionaries — and as it turns out, a lot of them aren’t from the United States.

A new feature that Twitter rolled out and quickly rolled back revealed the country of origin of every account on the site and indicated whether they were using a VPN. An…