X’s location feature just wrecked half the major political accounts on the platform

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Today has been an absolute bloodbath for many of the large accounts in the MAGA, Pro-Russian, Pro-Chinese, Pro-Iranian, Pro-Israel, and Crypto Communities, following the implementation of account location info by X.

Elon Musk’s X / Twitter has had many controversial changes and new features since the Tesla boss took over in October 2022 (such as the ability to let users view the tweets of accounts blocking them), but one of the latest tools on the social media platform is causing issues for accounts which are a part of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.

In a post to the site on Saturday (22 November), X’s head of product Nikita Bier announced the global rollout of ‘About This Account’ – a feature found by tapping an account’s sign-up date to see where in a country or region the user is located.

“This is an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town square,” he wrote. “We plan to provide many more ways for users to verify the authenticity of the content they see on X.

“And for those in countries where speech has penalties, we’ve included privacy toggles to only show your region.”

https://www.indy100.com/politics/twitter-account-based-in-location-maga-america-first