Overview
- X activated an “About this account” tool that shows the country or broader region where a profile originated when users click the account’s creation date.
- Journalists and researchers found multiple large pro‑MAGA profiles presenting as U.S. voices that display origins in Eastern Europe, South Asia or Africa, including examples flagged by NewsGuard.
- Nikita Bier, X’s product lead, cautioned that VPNs, proxies and travel can misstate origin and touted a future 99.99% accuracy level, a claim not independently verified.
- Users are reporting incorrect country assignments and raising privacy complaints, and CNN and others say they cannot independently verify the locations shown.
- X says accounts can swap a country for a region and some users can disable country visibility, as investigators continue assessing whether financially incentivized political content is being run from abroad.