Musk’s New X Feature Exposes Where Influential Accounts Are Really Posting From

A sweeping new update on 👤Elon Musk’s 📱X is pulling back the curtain on some of the platform’s most popular political voices — and revealing that many are not posting from where they claim.

According to Fox News, the feature, rolled out Friday, gives every user the ability to see the country or region from which an account is operating. Within hours, several high-profile accounts branding themselves as American conservatives, patriots, or constitutionalists were exposed as being based overseas.

One account, @1776General_, has more than 140,000 followers and describes its owner as a “constitutionalist, patriot and ethnically American.” The biography asserts the account is U.S.-based, but 📱X now shows that the user is actually posting from Turkey.

The account holder addressed the revelation shortly after the update went live. “I work in international business. I’m currently working in Turkey on a contract,” the owner wrote.

Another large account, @AmericanVoice__, had accumulated more than 200,000 followers before it was revealed that the feature was operating from South Asia. Soon after the disclosure, the owners deleted the account entirely.