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Takket

(23,387 posts)
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 09:13 AM Nov 23

How long until Elon reverses this "mistake"?

X is now showing people where accounts were registered. Which seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do, unless you are tailoring your site to be a right wind propaganda distribution machine, which X is....... I bet he kills this feature and fires whoever came up with it within the week.

America first account... Bangladesh.🤣😂😅

LANana-Nuestra Señora de la Muerte del Pan 😪 (@lanana421.bsky.social) 2025-11-23T04:15:59.763Z


X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) 2025-11-21T18:36:21.126Z


really baffled at elon's decision to confirm that most of twitter is just a poorly organized foreign influence operation

m (@keptsimple.bsky.social) 2025-11-23T02:14:49.826Z
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BComplex

(9,690 posts)
1. Now if Elon will just announce how they rigged the machines for the 2024
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 09:16 AM
Nov 23

election, I'll accept his apology!

Blue Owl

(58,031 posts)
18. Something really stinks involving Elon Musk's "contributions" to Dump's second term
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 05:19 PM
Nov 23

REALLY stinks. REALLY REALLY stinks.

highplainsdem

(59,233 posts)
5. It's still working. Or working again. Just tried it. You just click the arrow
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 09:40 AM
Nov 23

at the end of the Joined (date) line and you get an About this account page with the information.

PatSeg

(51,650 posts)
10. I just did that as well
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 11:30 AM
Nov 23

It was for a post about a sympathetic lunchroom lady, but the story sounded too good to be true. The account is from the UAE and the story is fake, probably written by AI. This is an excellent feature on social media.

usonian

(22,848 posts)
4. Elon is probably using it to extort more money from
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 09:33 AM
Nov 23

The despot who does everything just to extort more money.

Check your old gangster movies and TV series.

Even if it's for a moment, it shows what's possible, and in some ways, that's sneaky good bad.

ToxMarz

(2,657 posts)
8. I sure that these troll will come up with some way to subvert this feature or hide themselves again
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 10:53 AM
Nov 23

They didn't need to before so they didn't try to. They'll figure out something no doubt. Maybe this was even intentional so Musk can have some plausible deniability in the future, maybe thay have something BIG planned. He didn't do it for us, that's one thing he would never bother with.

Mz Pip

(28,315 posts)
9. The damage is done.
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 10:56 AM
Nov 23

Even if the curtain was pulled back for just a short time, the truth was revealed.

flvegan

(65,561 posts)
12. Wouldn't it falsely report on anyone using a VPN?
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 11:35 AM
Nov 23

I'm assuming its based off an IP, rather than someone's "honesty" when signing up the account.

And who still uses fucking Twitter anyway? Sorry, who still uses fucking X anyway?

Scrivener7

(57,989 posts)
13. And people still use this site. I'll never understand it.
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 11:41 AM
Nov 23

Why not just ask Elon to punch you in the face?

angrychair

(11,584 posts)
15. all social media
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 12:08 PM
Nov 23

Should be required by law to show the country of origin for its accounts and account farms should be illegal in the US.

It would fix a lot of this BS.

Bev54

(13,090 posts)
16. I am baffled by so called sensible people who remain on X instead of moving to other sites.
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 12:20 PM
Nov 23

It is a cesspool so nothing can be believed and I cannot see any actual value to it. Many political and influential people are using more than one site to post on and I see that as temporary until people start following other sites. Their opinions and positions are never going to convince the hard core or the "influencers" stationed in another country because they have a paying job to do. X will lose its influence when people stop using it.

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