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Elon Musk turned on the location spotlight: entire ‘Gaza resident’ influencers industry fake, 90% of ‘GOP civil war over Israel’ pushed by foreign accts
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Posted by trailing wife 2025-11-23 2025-11-23 00:41|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1816 views ]  Top
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1 For example, a user claiming to be “a witness from Rafah” was revealed to be based in Afghanistan, and an account claiming to be “a nurse from Khan Yunis” was shown to be operated from Pakistan.

Other examples include:

• “A father of six in a displacement camp” - actually a user from Bangladesh.

• “Survivors from northern Gaza” - developers from Malaysia.

• Even accounts posing as IDF soldiers - revealed to be users from London.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-11-23 05:19||   2025-11-23 05:19|| Front Page Top

2 Which is why you should never get your news from social media
Posted by DarthVader 2025-11-23 09:09||   2025-11-23 09:09|| Front Page Top

3 Supposedly this was a "mistake" by X. I would vote to make it a permanent feature.
Posted by PBMcL 2025-11-23 12:49||   2025-11-23 12:49|| Front Page Top

4 kudo's to Musk for the "accidental" reveal of where the phony Twitter postings are actually coming from and who is behind them - Muslim/Iranian/Chinese.Russian/Mutts-to-be-named-later agitprop actors.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-11-23 14:05||   2025-11-23 14:05|| Front Page Top

5 Guess lying Lame Stream Media's sources have withered up as well.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-11-23 14:34||   2025-11-23 14:34|| Front Page Top

6 ^ They'll fall back on the old "Some say" and "people affected say"
Posted by Frank G 2025-11-23 17:41||   2025-11-23 17:41|| Front Page Top

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