Last night, for around an hour, X enabled the feature that shows the actual location from which a tweet originates. Surprise! All those Gazans, tweeting about starving and dodging enemy fire? Actually located in Russia and Pakistan. Those “America First” advocates, who are hostile to Israel? Not exactly American: they are in Ireland, Pakistan, etc.
Breaking: @elonmusk just turned on the location spotlight and the entire “Gaza resident” influencer industry & fake IDF soldier industry just imploded.
Turns out the “eyewitness in Rafah living under bombardment” has been live-tweeting from a comfy flat in Islamabad while the… pic.twitter.com/qx0fWbH2Bj
— Faerie
(@LiquidFaerie) November 22, 2025
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90% of the "GOP civil war over Israel" stuff has been pushed by foreign accounts that got exposed last night.
The other 10% has been Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes.
It's all astroturfed. Almost no one in real life considers it a major issue, regardless of their position.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 22, 2025
Apparently X reverted after an hour or so. Users are hoping the location feature will be made permanent so that more fake accounts will be exposed. We will see. In the meantime, Elon’s move has confirmed what most of us already suspected.
I am not sure to what extent revealing location “outs” bots. I suppose it would, if for example the bot originates in Russia, as a great many do. I suspect that if we knew the truth, we would find that 75% or more of Nick Fuentes’ supposed legion of young male followers are, in fact, bots.
