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Short answer
X’s new “About This Account” feature just exposed one of the largest online deception networks of the past decade. What looked like a small transparency update has revealed that thousands of viral “Gaza” accounts, including reporters, nurses, and activists, were actually posting from Pakistan, Nigeria, Indonesia, Eastern Europe, and Russia.
Major pages like Times of Gaza turned out to be based in Asia, while Gaza’s “official municipality account” was posting from the U.S. High-profile propagandists such as Motasem Dalloul and Jackson Hinkle were traced to Poland and Burkina Faso. Bots-for-hire pushing anti-Israel narratives and siphoning fake “Gaza donations” were also uncovered. What people thought was grassroots activism was actually a global puppet show, and X just switched on the lights.
Long answer
X’s new “About This Account” feature has blown open one of the biggest digital fraud schemes of the past decade. What was meant as a small transparency update has instead exposed a vast ecosystem of fake “Gaza” influencers, fabricated pro-Palestinian accounts, and foreign-run propaganda shills manipulating global discourse.
With a single tap, users can now see an account’s true location, name-change history, VPN usage, and app-store origin, instantly dismantling elaborate online personas.
Thousands of accounts claiming to report “from Gaza under genocide” were revealed to be posting from Pakistan, Nigeria, Indonesia, Eastern Europe, and Russia.
Major “Gaza news” pages with millions of followers, like Times of Gaza, turned out to be based in Asia, not Gaza.High-profile propagandists like Motasem Dalloul, who presented himself as reporting from Gaza’s front lines, were found to be operating from Poland.
Even the “official account” of Gaza’s municipality was posting from the United States.
Some of the most viral personal stories, starving families, bombed-out reporters, sleepless nurses, were traced to places like Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Influential anti-Israel accounts like “Khalisee” vanished the moment their Pakistan-based operations were exposed. Antisemitic propagandist Jackson Hinkle, who claimed to be in Miami, was revealed to be operating out of Burkina Faso, in West Africa.The new tool also uncovered bots-for-hire pushing coordinated anti-Israel and antisemitic narratives while siphoning off millions in fraudulent “Gaza donation” scams.
Far-right and far-left agitators pretending to be American voters were revealed to be coordinated foreign influence operations targeting the U.S.–Israel relationship.
Middle East analyst Eitan Fischberger noted that many of the loudest “American” voices pushing anti-Israel conspiracies were never American at all.Panic has swept these networks as accounts mass-delete posts, rebrand themselves, or disappear entirely to avoid being archived.
For years, these personas warped public debate, laundered foreign propaganda into Western politics, and disguised coordinated influence operations as authentic outrage.
Now, one simple feature has exposed the truth: the Gaza and anti-Israel narrative online was engineered, curated abroad, amplified by bots, and monetized through manufactured outrage.
The mask is off, and the operators hiding behind fake suffering, fake identities, and fake “eyewitness” accounts have been exposed.
