X.com is gonna snitch you out to the public if you use a VPN (vice.com)

Or theres a lot of people who like to troll and propagandize americans for nationalism and racism

I'm going to be honest, I have no issue with this.

For anyone that it matters for, they won't care it shows they are using a vpn and for anyone trying to be deceitful using a vpn then it will downplay their credibility.

Slowly but surely turning into 4chan /pol/, now with country flags too!

I do not use twitter, so do not care.

But if you use a fake name and fake email, which people should be using on twitter, who cares.

Also if you self host your VPN, how would twitter know. Looks like only people using a commercial VPN will be flagged.

This is a good thing.

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls

https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidenta...

”Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places such as Russia, India, and Nigeria.

In one example, the account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We The People”—is actually based in Eastern Europe.”

I don't like the idea of linking VPN usage with something shady or illegal. Privacy is a human right, and knowing that I'm using a VPN or not doesn't change how "authentic" or truthful the post is.

X has a pandemic of people pretending to be Americans (or Westerners in general) saying edgy or controversial things in order to encourage engagement and subsequently earn money from X's program. This is why this feature was added.

IMHO the program itself just encourages misinformation and should be scrapped.

"“When you read content on X, you should be able to verify its authenticity. This is critical to getting a pulse on important issues happening in the world,” posted Nikita Bier, Head of Product at X, back on October 14, 2025."

That feature of showing where an account was created was on for a bit and then turned off... it highlights that many accounts implying they are in the USA are actually not and probably not who they claim to be.

This is a dick move, but let's not present VPNs add much in the way of privacy or security on average.

will they also advertise the service provider being used or will you have to ask?

Because I suspect "warning this person isnt an idiot" doesnt turn out to be the warning they expect.

My account is a simple personal account with less than 3,000 followers. It does show a warning stating that I might be using a VPN. I do use AdGuard with the Mask IP setting set to a random number, and the DNS is set to Mullvad’s DNS.

This follows from the other changes made exposing fake/bot/scam X accounts created in different locations posing as "real" users. This just takes it into another level.

Unrelated, but the amount of ads on Vice.com has become insufferable to the point where I cannot read the article without an ad-blocker with any default installed browser.

If you don't want to switch to Firefox and are still using a Chromium-based browser, get Ublock Origin Lite [0] which still works.

[0] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/...

Wasn't there something about DHS's account originating in Israel? Suprised it's not being discussed here.

In a perfect world, I’d like the user to have a choice. And that way I could post things anonymously if I wanted. However there would still be the implication of posting anonymously.

In the states, I desperately want a state-verified ID system that I can use to post on social media. However I don’t want it to be mandated.

Too bad. Social media has been turned against the US for too long by foreign adversaries. This will help end it.

The majority of my follows and the algo forced accounts really doesnt matter where they are.

The cases where their location does matter, there wasnt a question as to where they were from.

There were virtually no surprises from my point of view.