A new transparency feature on X has ignited a political firestorm after screenshots circulated online claiming the US Department of Homeland Security’s official account was listed as being based in Israel. The tool, which appeared over the weekend, lets users view an account’s current or previous location by tapping the join-date field. While designed to expose foreign-run troll farms, many of which masquerade as American political voices, it instead triggered a wave of speculation about high-profile accounts, including a series of MAGA-branded profiles that appeared to originate from Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.
It was a fake.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/11/24/dhs-israel-x-account/
They’ve made no determination in that link.
They said it can’t be checked because it’s not there and that grey check accounts never had this feature. If you follow this story overall, there’s so many stories of people proving they live in the states and their profile shows something else. Because VPNs exist.
Edit: Hank Greene’s account showed him as based in Japan. The whole thing is just nonsense. https://bsky.app/profile/hankgreen.bsky.social/post/3m6hlqkbxqc2n
Point being, is that they didn’t make truth/fake determination.
Also, who uses Israeli based VPNs? Or Eastern Europe?
Pretty sure you can set your location to almost anywhere with most VPNs.
Snopes? I thought that became unreliable years ago.
Better check Snopes to verify the truthfulness of that statement! 🫠