Many divisive X accounts are foreign-based. What does that tell us?

On X, they post as The General . The account, which comes with a blue check mark and describes itself as “Constitutionalist, Patriot, Ethnically American,” has been sharing a steady stream of pro-Trump, U.S.-centric content since March of 2016.

But The General may not be what their followers envision: The account is actually based in Turkey.

It’s just one of many highly active and relentlessly partisan accounts on X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, that have been affected by a new feature allowing users to see posters’ country of origin. This geolocation data has unmasked scores of accounts that generate millions of impressions posting about U.S. politics and other hot-button issues despite being located outside the U.S. The transparency feature, released on Nov. 21, has