X's new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts
Lance Ulanoff of Tech Radar discusses the new profile origins feature on social platform X with NBC's Ellison Barber, which shows that many MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S. and stirring online community backlash over where the Department of Homeland Security account was created.
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A new feature on X has stirred confusion, anger and a wave of online sleuthing after users discovered that the platform was suddenly displaying the surprising locations where certain accounts are based.
Last month, users noticed that clicking on an account’s join date now opens a tab that shows the country or region in which the account is located.
X’s head of product, Nikita Bier, teased the feature last month as a way to help users verify the authenticity of content they read and limit the influence of troll farms, which often run political accounts from outside the countries they target.
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