For a brief moment Saturday morning, X (formerly Twitter) exposed a vast number of accounts belonging to MAGA influencers — and even government agencies — as foreign-based.
In what’s being called “the most sweeping public exposure of covert foreign activity on a major platform since the revelations about Russia in 2016,” even the Department of Homeland Security was swept up, when it was revealed that the account is being run out of Israel.
X’s Transparency Tool Triggers a Political Firestorm
The controversy began when X introduced a new transparency feature, “About This Account,” intended to show an account’s creation date, name history, and — crucially — its country of origin. Within minutes, users discovered that several high-profile, self-described “America First” accounts appeared to be operated overseas.
As screenshots spread across the platform, dozens of MAGA-aligned accounts were flagged as being based in Israel, Poland, Nigeria, India, Morocco, Thailand, Bangladesh, Chile, and ot…
