> 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.

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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?

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MayeulC an hour ago | parent [-]

> the fact that it showed as Israel

Please re-read. That never happened.

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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.