{"id":976986,"date":"2025-11-27T10:36:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976986"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:19:19","slug":"xs-new-feature-raises-questions-about-the-foreign-origins-of-some-popular-us-political-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/27\/xs-new-feature-raises-questions-about-the-foreign-origins-of-some-popular-us-political-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"X\u2019s new feature raises questions about the foreign origins of some popular US political accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They go by names like @TRUMP_ARMY\u2014 or @MAGANationX, and their verified accounts proudly display portraits of President Donald Trump, voter rallies and American flags. And they\u2019re constantly posting about US politics to their followers, sounding like diehard fans of the president. <\/p>\n<p>But after a weekend update to the social media platform X, it\u2019s now clear that the owners of these accounts, and many others, are located in regions such as South Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They go by names like @TRUMP_ARMY\u2014 or @MAGANationX, and their verified accounts proudly display portraits of President Donald Trump, voter rallies and American flags. And they\u2019re constantly posting about US politics to their followers, sounding like diehard fans of the president. But after a weekend update to the social media platform X, it\u2019s now clear that the owners of these accounts, and many others, are located in regions such as South Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}