Overview
- The platform introduced an “About this account” panel that shows the country or region an account is primarily operated from, using internal signals such as IP data, login history, device and app‑store region, and language settings rather than precise location.
- After high‑profile misattributions, including U.S. government accounts briefly listed in Israel, X paused or limited the feature for some profiles, corrected entries, and indicated the tool would return with fixes by Tuesday.
- Numerous large pro‑Trump and MAGA‑branded accounts were shown as operated from outside the United States, with examples pointing to Nigeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, and parts of Eastern Europe.
- X acknowledges the indicator can be influenced by VPNs, proxies, emulator or app‑store settings, travel, and stale metadata, and the company now flags accounts that may be using a proxy as potentially inaccurate.
- Civil liberties groups and experts warn that publishing origin data for personal profiles risks doxxing and reprisals, noting that rivals like Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok avoid exposing individual user locations.