{"id":280630,"date":"2025-11-24T13:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280630\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:26:09","slug":"bbc-verify-live-x-is-now-showing-where-accounts-are-based-will-that-help-tackle-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280630\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: X is now showing where accounts are based &#8211; will that help tackle disinformation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some pro-Trump accounts based outside US, X\u2019s location data suggestspublished at 12:23 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:23 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/24d2d5d4-d458-4196-aaee-113790d4fafc.png.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Thomas Copeland<br \/>BBC Verify Live journalist<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019re reporting today on what we can discover about accounts on the social media platform X after it began sharing the locations of its users. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We can now see that some notable accounts with a history of posting content supportive of President Donald Trump which generate large amount of engagement are actually located outside of the US, according to the data X provides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Just two days ago, Trump shared on Truth Social a screenshot of a post from an X account called @TRUMP_ARMY_ celebrating a Supreme Court ruling in his favour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We can now see that this account, which has more than half a million followers, is based in India and has changed its username four times since joining the platform in March 2022, according to X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The account profile has now been changed to \u201cAn Indian who loves America, President Trump, Musk! \u201c<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A screenshot of the @TRUMP_ARMY_ account\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/79b047ce-189d-49d6-b157-192a79b32c45.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1600\" height=\"742\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many of these accounts have previously claimed they are American or based in the US. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">@IvankaNews_, which describes itself as a fan account for Trump\u2019s daughter, has gathered more than one million followers by posting multiple times a day in support of the president and the wider Make America Great Again movement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This user previously claimed to have voted for the president in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We can now see the account is based in Nigeria and has changed its username 11 times since 2010, according to X.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A screenshot of the @IvankaNews_ account\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/aeaab2e3-b6f4-4568-8435-b73a7efadc18.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1600\" height=\"934\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The account has now posted that \u201csome of us living outside the USA genuinely support President Trump\u2019s movement because we believe he was saved by God\u2026 not only to save America, but to save humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Verify is not able to independently confirm the information X provides and we have contacted these accounts for a response. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some pro-Trump accounts based outside US, X\u2019s location data suggestspublished at 12:23 GMT 12:23 GMT Thomas CopelandBBC Verify&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-280630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}