The inevitable vest slipped off again and he immediately removed it. pic.twitter.com/t4kmk5pPZU
– Mukhtar (@I_amMkhtar) 11 June 2025
Now, people are starting to look at location data, and as expected, many of the site’s prominent far-right nationalists are actually international grifters:
Confirmation that this account is Indian. pic.twitter.com/myNTIrfTPR
– Mukhtar (@I_amMkhtar) 23 November 2025
And as we get to, one of the exposed accounts reportedly belonged to the US Department of Homeland Security.
Chaos with Twitter location data
The accounts exposed so far through the Twitter location data update include the following:
We have a new heat map that shows where the most MAGA accounts operate on pic.twitter.com/McarTTVh7o
– Right Wing Cope (@RightWingCope) 23 November 2025
Location: India https://t.co/YfrQ1MbpUe
– Philip Proudfoot (@PhilipProudfoot) 23 November 2025
Revealing real location is the best thing that has ever happened to this app! pic.twitter.com/ZGzObksaJO
– PaulConRO (@PaulConRO) 23 November 2025
Here’s a funny story, do you remember all those “I’m an independent Trump supporting woman” accounts on X that pretended to be real people supporting Trump in America?
Thanks to a recent location update, we now know that almost all of them are located in Thailand.
Let’s take a look 👇 pic.twitter.com/7kRdlcPqHS
– Benjamin Strick (@BenDoBrown) 22 November 2025
The right wing Cope account published a ‘heat map’:
We have a new heat map that shows where the most MAGA accounts operate on pic.twitter.com/McarTTVh7o
– Right Wing Cope (@RightWingCope) 23 November 2025
Several people have reported that Twitter has ‘paused’ or ‘terminated’ the program:
>Twitter revealed the location of accounts
>Thousands of MAGA propaganda accounts are non-US
>Twitter stopped the feature pic.twitter.com/KbwwI5hq1G– Nyara (@nyaraVT) 22 November 2025
This was difficult to prove, because Twitter is incredibly small, so sometimes different people have different user experiences. Also, this feature is back online for most people.
‘home’ land
There’s no way Musk didn’t know that the Twitter location data update would expose right-wing grifter accounts. Having said that, he probably did not expect that this would expose the US government:
So…X activated Locations last night, revealing that US government accounts like DHS are open and operating from Israel. Then 20 minutes later, X disabled the feature and today, government accounts have been “freed” from the location feature. https://t.co/8kiU541EDg pic.twitter.com/3DvM2NkrEM
– GenXGirl (@GenXGirl1994) 23 November 2025
Breaking: 🇺🇸 🇮🇱
Screen recording shows the Department of Homeland Security is based out of Israel…
Is that why the location feature was suddenly removed? pic.twitter.com/Uki6W3eb1M
– Adam (@AdameMedia) 22 November 2025
While many did not find the situation funny, the (alleged) Israeli running the Homeland Security account is not among them:
https://t.co/Xe6MVghyfV pic.twitter.com/4PJNovdEQT
– Homeland Security (@DHSgov) 22 November 2025
This is not funny. You’re the Department of Homeland Security and you’re not even in my homeland.
Treason. pic.twitter.com/6E2NcugOUG
– Belthan (@Belthan_) 22 November 2025
The account data now says they are based in the United States, but there is a rounded ‘i’ next to it (which some people are describing as an ‘exclamation point’):
As people have highlighted, the symbol shows that the account is using a VPN to hide its real location:
When they post screenshots of the new Location feature always remember to look for the exclamation mark on the opposite side where it says “Account Based.” This means that they are using the VPN and keeping track of those who hack it.
– Mukhtar (@I_amMkhtar) 22 November 2025
wild times
To be fair to Elon Musk, this change to his social media site is actually a positive change. Does it make up for his years of negative choices? Not even a little, but it has at least exposed some of the worst people on the website.
Featured image via Daniel Oberhaus (Flickr) / Public domain
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