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| ▲ | Aarostotle an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Given the sibling comment here, I am wondering if you’ve fallen for a fake screenshot. I hope you did not make this up. |
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| ▲ | jsheard an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah that DHS screenshot is fake. If you boost the exposure there's conspicuous gaps in the JPEG artifacts around the fields where they were edited. They would have got away with it if they just used Inspect Element! | |
| ▲ | hbosch an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | The same head of product quoted in the sib comment admits that "for a small set of accounts the location data was incorrect". Given what we know about Twitter's relationship with the government and this administration in particular, you're simply left to do with that information what you will. I personally do not trust Twitter, or the government, very much. I also would not be surprised if some government accounts were created at various embassies around the world or through strategic VPN networks, or if general business is conducted through a darknet-like node system which includes allied endpoints. To me those are more plausible. | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross an hour ago | parent [-] | | > I personally do not trust Twitter, or the government, very much Then don’t conclude—much less spread as “known”—foreign interference from Twitter/X’s purported location data about the government. |
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| ▲ | redindian75 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| after it was reported/recorded, X "fixed" it by making .gov accounts untrackable. So now it doesnt show Israel anymore (and MAGA accounts now have an opportunity to scream fake news) |
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| ▲ | harrisonjackson an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1992382852328255743?s=20 > This is fake news. Location was not available on any gray check account at any point. Furthermore, the DHS has only shown IPs from the United States since account creation. - head of product @x Not to discount the impact of foreign powers over social media but maybe don't spread this misinformation. |
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| ▲ | blitzar an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Blink twice if you are in danger. | |
| ▲ | hbosch an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Does this make the fact that it showed as Israel, was disabled, and is now "corrected", mean that this feature is good or bad? Either we can trust all location data all the time, or we can trust none of it. We cannot expect Nikita Bier to swoop in on every suspicious tweet and try to educate us on IP range changes and DNS glitches or whatever. Furthermore is it more likely that a small set of special accounts seemingly never collected location data on signup, or that for a small number of accounts X simply modified that data post-hoc? | | |
| ▲ | MayeulC an hour ago | parent [-] | | > the fact that it showed as Israel Please re-read. That never happened. | | |
| ▲ | hbosch an hour ago | parent [-] | | It may have happened. There are already many users saying their "created in" locations were incorrect. Thus the rest of my comment: trust is binary. We can either be 100% certain the data is correct, or we must assume it is never correct. | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross an hour ago | parent [-] | | > trust is binary. We can either be 100% certain the data is correct, or we must assume it is never correct You’re mixing up trust and faith. |
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