X's new location feature exposes apparent fraudster accounts posing as Americans, Gaza journalists
Popular accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers deleted and scrutinized after being revealed as overseas operations
By Anders Hagstrom Fox News
Published November 23, 2025 1:52pm EST
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A new feature on Elon Musk's X is exposing the truth behind social media accounts across the political spectrum, with account owners apparently misleading followers about where they are posting from.
The new feature allows all X users to inspect where a given account is based, usually listing a country or region. Many popular accounts posing as American "patriots" or "constitutionalists" have been exposed as being run from foreign countries since the update rolled out on Friday.
One account with the handle "@1776General_" boasts over 140,000 followers and has a user biography describing the owner as a "constitutionalist, patriot and ethnically American." The biography claims the account is based in the U.S., but X's new feature reveals it is actually based in Turkey.
"I work in international business. I'm currently working in Turkey on a contract," the owner of the account posted after the new feature was released.
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