Cardi B is denying any involvement in a new report that says Nicki Minaj’s social media posts are boosted by bots.
On Monday morning, Alex Bruesewitz, a Trump advisor, took to X in an attempt to discredit the Politico report, which shared new analysis from Cyabra, an AI-powered platform that detects fake social media accounts and disinformation. The report considered how Minaj’s newfound support for MAGA “has been amplified by an army of bots and coordinated activity.”
Bruesewitz called the report “100% BS” and wrote that Minaj, “the most popular female rapper of all time, does not need ‘bots' to promote her on social media.”
He then slammed the Politico writer, Jason Beeferman, calling him a “fake news hack who fails to disclose that the company that conducted this report, Cybara, is partnered with Cardi B’s agent.”
“It’s incredibly unethical and inappropriate that Beeferman failed to disclose that relationship, given the very public disputes in the music industry,” Bruesewitz added. “Fake news is the enemy of the people!”
Bruesewitz was referring to UTA agent Mike “G” Guirguis, who reps Cardi and is both an advisor to and investor in Cybara.
Guirguis forcefully responded to Bruesewitz on X, saying that “my advisory role and investment in Cyabra along with multiple other tech companies has absolutely nothing to do with Cardi B.”
“I invest in innovation. I represent artists. Those are separate lanes,” he said. “Trying to spin this into something else is lazy and misleading.”
Guirguis is a member of Cyabra’s Brand & Entertainment Council.
Per a 2025 press release, “This new advisory panel unites experts from communications, analytics, and the entertainment space to help Cyabra combat the escalating spread of social media disinformation.”
There is no evidence that Cardi has any influence on or connection to Cyabra.
Cardi backed up Guirguis’ take on the situation.
“Listen, you involved me in something that has nothing to do wit me so now we’re gonna talk about the facts,” she wrote on X. “Cyabra is a data company with a lot of investors like Mike G, customers like Elon Musk and Pepsi that use that company for data and even has Mike Pompeo on the board of advisors.. so what you need to focus on is the fact that data is VERY real and leave me out of your bullshit.
“I do not have anything to do with that and I don’t give AF!! Now lie and say that’s not true!!! See what happen when you involve me in shit that don’t have nothing to do with me? I get down to the GRISTLE of it!!”
According to Cyabra’s analysis, from Nov. 11 to Dec. 28, over 18,000 bots praised and amplified Minaj’s posts on X with positive commentary. The activity corresponds with the rapper becoming a major Trump supporter, and her alliance with conservative group Turning Point USA. In recent weeks, she and Trump got together at the Trump Accounts Summit, where they were seen holding hands; the president applauded Nicki during a Black History Month address at the White House, and Minaj made an appearance at a Turning Point USA event.
“We don’t really see a lot of high volume, high impact orchestration of bad and fake actors within that intersection of the geopolitically driven and music culture,” Dan Brahmy, the CEO and founder of Cyabra, told Politico. “It is scarce in our field to see the combination of the bad and the fake online world with the entertainment world.”
The bots reportedly cosigned many of Minaj’s recent political concerns, including her advocacy for Trump, issues with Christians being persecuted in Nigeria, Newsom’s perceived alignment with the trans community, and her posts about the music industry.
“Nicki has never used bot activity to promote herself on social media, because she doesn’t need to,” Bruesewitz told Politico. “She has one of the largest fan bases of any musician that’s alive today.”
In Bruesewitz’s original tweet, he seemed to allude to Minaj and Cardi’s longstanding beef when he called Beeferman “unethical” for failing to disclose Cardi’s ties to Cyabra, “given the very public disputes in the music industry.”
The two rappers have been feuding for years, with their conflict first bubbling around the release of the 2017 Migos song “MotorSport” and escalating in 2018, when Cardi attempted to physically attack Minaj at a New York Fashion Week party. Over the years, the pair has continued to take shots at each other.