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Investigating claim DHS runs official X account from Israel (www.snopes.com)

submitted 4 months ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/usa@midwest.social

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Shortly after a new feature on X in late November 2025 revealed from where accounts on Elon Musk's social media platform were posting, a rumor began to spread that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was running its official account from Tel Aviv, Israel.

As of this writing, the post had more than 39.7 million views and 330,000 likes. The same rumor appeared many times on X. Some posts claimed that X turned off the feature 20 minutes after the DHS account's location was exposed.

Snopes was not able to verify directly that the DHS account's About page ever showed it had been created in Israel and was posting from there. For this reason, we have left the claim unrated.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Fuck. That’s a helluva lotta words and quotes from X staff to say we don’t fucking know.

Almost like they’d prefer you decided for yourself based only on what they reported. Which, again, was a whole lot of ‘splainin from X.

Fuck that.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Derp