X’s new country-locator feature has revealed that impersonator and fan accounts posing as US commentators are actually operated from Nigeria, raising fresh debates over privacy and online identity.
Juanita Broaddrick, a US author and political commentator, became one of the first high-profile users to publicly identify her impersonators after discovering through X’s new country-locator tool that “All my impersonators are in Nigeria,” a revelation previously impossible before the update.
The automatically attached country label, introduced to curb misinformation, bot activity and identity theft, has exposed several accounts mimicking US figures as Nigeria-based, including fan pages claiming loyalty to independent journalist Breanna Morello, who posted, “I just learned that all of my fan accounts are in Nigeria.”
The tool also revealed that an account branded as an Ivanka Trump “News” platform is similarly operated from Nigeria, sparking wider conversations about anonymity, profiling, privacy risks and the broader consequences of X’s latest policy change.