X's location feature exposes the foreign origins of some popular political accounts

Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X unveiled a feature that lets users see where an account is based. Online sleuths and experts quickly found that many popular accounts, often posting in support of the U.S. MAGA movement with thousands or hundreds of thousands of followers, are based outside the U.S. This raises concerns about foreign influence in U.S. politics. Researchers at NewsGuard identified several popular accounts that appeared to be run by Americans interested in politics – but instead were based in Eastern Europe, Asia or Africa. Other users were claiming, using fabricated screenshots, that accounts were based outside the U.S. when they weren't.