X’s Location-Tracking Shake-Up Exposes Global Fake Influencers – And Raises Big Questions About Online Credibility |
The social media platform X, formerly Twitter, has created a sensation after it revealed that several influential accounts carrying out online flame wars are not in the locations they say they are based in. As part of a transparency move, X introduced an About This Account feature that revealed its real location and the number of times it changed its username.
What this showed is that some of those who were not in their claimed home base are vociferous supporters of US President Donald Trump and the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. Their real locations pointed to faraway Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Eastern Europe.
The discovery appears to buttress the finding that last........