Benjamin Netanyahu Praises Newsmax for Covering Truth on 8-front War

By Eric Mack | Monday, 24 November 2025 11:13 AM EST

A new X feature revealing where user accounts are based has exposed a wave of profiles falsely claiming to be in Gaza while soliciting donations during the ongoing war.
Rolled out under owner Elon Musk, the “About This Account” tool displays an account’s regional origin.
Within hours of its release, it unmasked numerous profiles posing as Gaza residents, some using stolen photos and fabricated personal stories to ask for money, the New York Post and Business Insider reported.
“196,900 followers being lied to by fake ‘journalist’ claiming to be in Gaza,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry wrote on X. “New @X feature reveals his actual location is Poland. Reporting from Gaza is fake & not reliable.
“Makes you wonder how many more fake reports have you read?”
Israel told the Post in a statement that the tool had “ripped the mask off countless fake ‘Gazan’ accounts,” noting several were traced to Pakistan and London.
Journalist Mostasem A. Dalloul pushed back after X — on an account that posts what looks like Hamas terrorist propaganda and solicits donations in his profile — marked him as being in Poland, as Israel noted, posting a purported video from the ruins of Gaza to mock X as fake news.
Newsmax could not independently verify where Dalloul was reporting from, or whether the video might have been staged or using artificial intelligence.
Some social media users claim Dalloul had once reported on Gaza being freezing when verifiable facts detailed the temperature was 80 degrees.
One widely shared account claiming to be a Gaza mother was shown to be based in India and subsequently deleted its posts. Another account impersonating a Palestinian father was flagged as operating from the U.K.
The platform acknowledged that location data is not always precise — particularly for older accounts or those using VPNs — and briefly removed some location displays over the weekend to make accuracy upgrades.
X’s head of product, Nikita Bier, said the system will reach “nearly 99.99%” accuracy after updates roll out this week.
The feature sparked a broader online frenzy as users probed political influencers’ locations.
Business Insider found accounts promoting pro-Trump messaging appearing to be based in Eastern Europe, Bangladesh, and Thailand — fueling renewed scrutiny of foreign-run political accounts.
X said locations for government-associated gray-check accounts will remain hidden for security reasons and that location updates will be randomized to avoid real-time doxing.
The issue underscored longstanding concerns about deception on social media — problems magnified during wartime and political crises.
Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.