'X' wages war on misinformation, launches country of origin label feature
X platform pulls up the origin country data from signup IP addresses, app store regions, and access history to show origins under the 'About this account' section.
Dear @nikitabier@elonmusk, The "country location" feature is one of the best updates for an app in a long time- it provides very important context. However, please rethink the option for people to select "continent". This makes no sense in regions where the COUNTRY is the…
Any Twitter account displaying “South Asia” as its location should, by default, be treated as Bangladeshi or Pakistani unless there is evidence to the contrary.
“South Asia” is not a default setting on Twitter; it is a manual choice. An Indian has no reason to hide behind a…
Twitter is just a small sample. You can easily see how many Pakistani handles pretending to be Indians, are trying to sow differences in India. Imagine the scale of Instagram. All of this is going on unabated there to a much larger audience. And they somehow make a political…