New X location tool exposes fake Gaza accounts taking advantage of war by seeking donations.

The new location tool on X has revealed that a large number of users seeking donations while claiming to be posting from inside Gaza are actually outside the zone and taking advantage of the war.

The social-media company recently unveiled a feature that publicly displays key background information about an account, including the location on where it’s based.

All social media should do this. HN no different, but start with facebook, bluesky, truth social, reddit, discord. The lot.

Mostasem A Dalloul, a journalist working in Gaza, also came under fire from the Israeli Foreign Ministry when it accused him of spreading fake news after X’s new featured flagged him to Poland.

Dalloul responded to the claims by posting a video of himself Saturday mocking the allegations as he walked around a destroyed neighborhood asking if such a scenery exists in the middle of Poland.

X notes that the country or region flagged on an account “may not be accurate and can change periodically.”