Shortly after a new feature on X in late November 2025 revealed from where accounts on Elon Musk’s social media platform were posting, a rumor began to spread that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was running its official account from Tel Aviv, Israel.
As of this writing, the post had more than 39.7 million views and 330,000 likes. The same rumor appeared many times on X. Some posts claimed that X turned off the feature 20 minutes after the DHS account’s location was exposed.
Snopes was not able to verify directly that the DHS account’s About page ever showed it had been created in Israel and was posting from there. For this reason, we have left the claim unrated.
This would’ve been a bit too on the nose. I’d believe it if there was more proof, but I haven’t seen any yet.
Even if it wasn’t photoshopped, who knows how Xitter determines where an account is “based.” I’m not always in my home country when I’m online, and I can set my VPN endpoint to almost anywhere in the world.