In a couple hours, we'll be rolling out About This Account globally, allowing you to see the country or region where an account is based. This will be accessible by tapping the signup date on profiles. This is an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town square. We plan to provide many more ways for users to verify the authenticity of the content they see on X. And for those in countries where speech has penalties, we've included privacy toggles to only show your region. This was a huge undertaking. A special thanks to the engineers who made this happen: @sandeep_rao @singhai @mingsong @striedinger @rzhao0506

BREAKING: X LAUNCHES COUNTRY LABELS X just started displaying user location labels, revealing which country accounts are based from. The transparency feature aims to expose bot networks and foreign influence campaigns masquerading. The rollout means that "Jim from Ohio" pushing divisive content might suddenly show a Nigeria or Russia label. Nothing kills astroturfing faster than a mandatory return address.

Something is finally happening! EU is: - scaling down the GDPR (data privacy laws) - watering down the AI Act (more like AI Ban), and - finally removing the Cookie Banner laws This gets us a bit closer to the top eu/acc ideas being reached https:// ideas.euacc.com/?sortBy=upvote s%3Adesc …