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This is the Elon Musk Podcast, 
your daily hit of what is really

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going on at Tesla, SpaceX, XAI, 
and the rest of the Musk 

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universe. 
I'm your host Will Walden, and I

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have covered Elon Musk for more 
than five years, spent a year on

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the ground at SpaceX, Starbase 
during early Starship 

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development, and before this I 
spent my career as a software 

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developer working with billion 
dollar companies. 

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I've also built and sold my own 
businesses and now I make 

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content and help other people 
grow their companies. 

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Now on this show, I used that 
experience to break down the 

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news, filter out all the noise, 
and give you clear context you 

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can actually use. 
Elon Musk's social network X 

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added a About this account 
feature that shows an account's 

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country or region, and users 
immediately spotted the several 

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large pro Trump fan accounts 
post from outside of the United 

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States. 
Now the topic is how that single

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design change exposed the true 
base of popular political 

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profiles. 
I know you can use it to check 

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what you see. 
Are there foreign actors instead

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of people near you that are 
trying to influence you? 

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Now the payoff is clear. 
You will know what this tool 

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shows, how reliable it is, and 
what early findings say about 

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some of the most viral accounts 
on X. 

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Now one striking threat is how 
many of these accounts claim AUS

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identity in their bio. 
You know who they are, the 

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people with the eagle American 
flag and you know USAUSAUSA all 

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over the place. 
They claimed US identity of the 

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bio while the location panel 
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Now what does this sudden 
transparency change about how we

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read political content on X and 
who you can trust? 

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Now some of the biggest fan 
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mega memes and right wing 
slogans trace to places like 

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Nigeria, Eastern Europe and 
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And we'll talk about how the new
panel works, what early 

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sleuthing has uncovered, how 
accurate the location readout is

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and where people have already 
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What a sensible user checklist 
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Now I'll also talk about 
practical steps, specific 

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examples, and the limits you 
should assume before you share a

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political post. 
And we'll get right into that 

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after this very short break. 
All right, everybody, welcome 

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back. 
Today we're talking about XS, 

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about this account pain and what
it revealed about foreign based 

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political profiles. 
The panel sits behind the sign 

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up date on an account page and 
exposes location along with 

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other basic metadata. 
This thing's amazing. 

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Now that puts quick context one 
tap away from anyone evaluating 

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A viral post. 
You just look at the profile, 

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you see they're not from your 
country and then they don't 

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matter, right? 
Let's start with how the feature

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works, then move to the account 
people found in the caveats you 

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need to apply each time you look
at one of these accounts before 

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you get rage baited into 
something. 

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So you access the location by 
tapping or clicking the sign up 

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data on a profile. 
There's now opens in about this 

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account card. 
The card shows a country or a 

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broader region for some accounts
because it places with 

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restrictive speech rules. 
X allows users to display only a

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region such as South Asia and 
X's head of products that the 

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feature rolled out across the 
platform and describe it as a 

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first step toward helping users 
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He also claimed a very high 
accuracy rate, while the product

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warns VPNs and some proxies can 
blur the reading and even adds a

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notice when it detects that the 
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Now treat the readout as a 
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Not a complete verdict for that 
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Now as soon as the panel 
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Well known MAGA handles a fan 
account for Ivanka Trump with 

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about a million followers showed
Nigeria as its base. 

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A cluster of other right leaning
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borders as well, including a 
dark mega profile tied to 

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Thailand, a mega scope account 
in Nigeria, and a mega beacon 

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account in South Asia. 
Another page branded around Mega

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nation X with hundreds of 
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patriotic bio American flag 
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Those things was identified as 
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The pattern was not isolated to 
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And these trolls are all over 
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There were checks from News 
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multiple accounts that present 
as American yet register in 

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Eastern Europe, Asia or Africa. 
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Barron Trump, for example, lists
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location panel, while its 
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And the same reporting points 
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pushed provocative claims about 
US politics, including unfounded

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allegations about debate 
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Now that makes a patriotic 
branding foreign base and 

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sensational content explains why
the feature sparked so much 

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attention. 
It turns a guess about origin 

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into a visible, testable detail.
I don't know if you've been on X

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and you've seen these kind of 
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This person's probably not in 
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These people probably do not 
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It could be a content farm. 
It could be a troll farm trying 

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to swing an election. 
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My analysis is that the most 
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If a viral post reads as if an 
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the about this account card 
places the operator in another 

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country, you should just adjust 
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Just don't pay attention to it. 
Some of these pages they are 

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trying to make money where 
accounts post engagement bait to

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farm clicks, followers and paid 
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That does not rule out state 
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engagement economy where outrage
drives revenue and they could be

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selling products. 
A location panel will not tell 

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you motive yet it can flag where
the voice in your feed does not 

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match the identity on the page. 
Use this mismatch to slow down 

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before you share any of this 
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Now accuracy is the next concern
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your workflow. 
Access product had claimed near 

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perfect accuracy of about this 
update, but the system itself 

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warns about VPNs and proxies and
sometimes labels of view as 

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potentially inaccurate. 
That means AUS user who routes 

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traffic through another country 
can appear foreign and a foreign

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operator can try to appear 
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Now, Cornell Tech's trust and 
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harmful, useful, but limited 
signal the bad actors will adapt

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to overtime. 
So they're just going to get 

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VPNs and that is the right frame
help context, helpful. 

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Context, never a sole criterion,
now misused, cropped up fast. 

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AP has documented that some 
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to smear opponents claiming 
foreign locations where the real

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cards did not show them. 
The speed of that tactic proves 

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why you should verify on the 
live profile instead of trusting

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a screenshot floating around a 
reply thread. 

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Screens can be cropped editor, 
Just Photoshop or Canva. 

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I mean, how easy is that? 
Or they could be pulled from 

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older versions If a claim rests 
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Click through and check the 
About This Account panel page 

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for yourself. 
Now, I've been digging through 

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the analytics of this show right
here, and I've noticed that 37% 

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of you are following this 
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For you, I'm forever grateful to
the other 63% who haven't hit 

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the follow or subscribe button. 
I've been an independent 

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journalist covering Elon Musk, 
spaceflight and tech for the 

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last six years, and I'll 
continue for the next 10 years. 

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And all I ask for you is one 
second of your time to hit the 

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follow or subscribe button on 
the platform you're watching or 

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listening on right now. 
I'm extremely grateful for you 

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and I'm blessed to have you in 
this community. 

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So thank you, thank you, thank 
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Now, here's a simple checklist 
you can use when you evaluate a 

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political post on X. 
First, tap the sign update on 

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the author's profile and open 
the About this account card. 

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Note the country or region. 
Second, scan the rest of the 

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card for context that it 
contains, including when the 

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account joined, any username 
change history, and how the app 

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was downloaded. 
Third, look for a disclaimer 

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that the location may be 
inaccurate or considered whether

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AVPN could explain a mismatch. 
4th, read the bio and pin posts 

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and ask whether the identity 
claims align with what the panel

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shows. 5 quick steps Add a layer
of discipline to your social 

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media without turning you into 
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Here. 
And some users have found a 

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spread of mega pages with 
foreign bases from Eastern 

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Europe to Nigeria to Thailand 
and even collected follower 

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cuts. 
For context, AP highlighted a 

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Baron Trump fan account, the 
show's non-us region, while 

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claiming A prominent Florida 
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Those two threads together show 
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the issue. 
Multiple accounts, different 

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regions, and consistent 
patriotic branding that'll wave 

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and flag gift maybe. 
And the accounts do not all push

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the same lines, but many churn 
out in motives and topics for US

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politics. 
And that's designed to harvest 

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engagement and rage. 
And you should treat it that 

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way. 
Don't treat everything you see 

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on X or any social media with 
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they're not everyone's in it for
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And whether that's money and you
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Look at the whole picture. 
Don't just look at what they 

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say. 
Look at the whole picture. 

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Look at why they're saying it, 
who they are, where they're 

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from, the context of what 
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If they say something like, you 
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tubes due to Democratic 
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profile, see where they're from 
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Because if they're not American,
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You know, like what's the don't 
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they don't matter. 
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matter as a person, but they 
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politics. 
So the motivation some operators

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could be state actors. 
Many likely chase income by 

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posting commentary, memes and 
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repost and rage bait you. 
It's a business model, not an 

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ideology. 
And the location feature helps 

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you spot when a pages claimed 
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My guidance here is very simple.
Separate the content from the 

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costume, then just the claim on 
the evidence, not on flags and 

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avatars or references to 
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If the page collects tips, runs 
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merch, assume engagement sits 
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They need to see some eyes on 
this thing so they can make 

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money from their merch sales. 
They want to sell that Donald 

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Trump with his bulging muscles 
standing on top of a a tank 

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waving the American flag with an
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They want to sell that T-shirt 
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And that's why they do this. 
And I'm saying this because I 

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think it's hilarious that those 
shirts exist because that's 

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silly. 
But if they can make $10 in 

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their country from selling this 
shirt, it could be a lot of 

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money for them. 
If they could sell a hundred of 

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those shirts, they could be 
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So just think about that before 
you click through these 

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profiles, before you even take 
them seriously and also call 

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them out if you see them doing 
this kind of stuff because it's 

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just rage bait and they're 
trying to make money, which I, 

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I, I love hustlers. 
I love it when people hustle and

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make money. 
That's one of the things that 

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I'm into. 
I love business. 

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I've hustled, I've made money, 
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companies, I've been equi hired,
I've had numerous acquisitions 

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over the years and I love the 
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So I get it. 
You want to make the best money 

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for your family, right? 
You want to make as much money 

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as you can, but you're also 
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So we don't want rats and our 
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So call them out. 
Make sure you call them out. 

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But some users cheered the new 
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confirmed what they suspected 
after certain accounts. 

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And others questioned whether 
exposing location crosses a 

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privacy line and argued that 
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not matter. 
If the facts hold up. 

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I agree with that. 
If they're facts, yes. 

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If it's rage bait, no. 
So there's debate in the 

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replies, including concerns 
about privacy, and there's also 

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celebration right now from some 
liberal influencers who said the

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panel vindicated long standing 
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You don't. 
You don't have to pick a side 

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though to use this tool. 
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consistently. 
Use it for both sides. 

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Use it for all sides. 
But don't just use it for people

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that you think are wrong. 
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think are right and why are they
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Always think about the why are 
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Because they believe in this and
they want this to be the 

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outcome, whatever that is, and 
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positive. 
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merch? 
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sell money or to to make money 
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course or something like that. 
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matters for really heavy users. 
If you're an ex user, that's 

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just wild on there. 
These findings are in a longer 

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history of bots and false claims
on Twitter before and after it 

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became X, and mentions that the 
platform's Grok chatbot has made

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errors as well. 
That background explains why a 

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small change like a location 
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People are hungry for any signal
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from the performative. 
The location field will not cure

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misinformation and it just won't
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It does, however, add a small 
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look. 
Now it would be great if it were

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on the post page, right 
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underneath the person's profile.
You know, put a little flag 

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there, a little flag icon. 
That would be great. 

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That would be more beneficial 
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through somebody's profile and 
it would shut down these 

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accounts immediately. 
Because if you're an American 

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citizen and you're a flag 
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I'll tell you what. 
You look at a you look at a 

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profile that posts about Nancy 
Pelosi or something like that 

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and they have a flag from say 
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Russia. 
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flag could be from, but there's 
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Or even Africa, who knows? 
But you would not trust them 

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Eastern Europe, you're like, why
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Like, what are you doing? 
Like you're not American 

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citizen. 
So like not stay out of our 

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politics, but because you have 
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whatever you want to in this 
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But you see that flag and you're
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Probably, you know, probably 
don't have our best interest at 

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heart. 
So in summary this about this 

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account card behind the sign 
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This shows that accounts country
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details is important. 
Early checks found several large

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mega branded profiles posting 
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examples tied to Eastern Europe,
Nigeria, Thailand and the Barron

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Trump fan page which I mentioned
earlier was from Eastern Europe,

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non EU despite being from quote 
Mar a Lago, which is a total lie

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in the bio. 
And the tool is useful but not 

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definitive because there's VPNs 
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Proxies can cloud the reading 
and screenshots can be faked of 

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course. 
So treat the panel as a source 

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of context in a wider 
verification routine for now. 

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