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Turns Out America First Lives in... Bangladesh?!

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Will Sommer take on X/Twitter's new geolocation feature and the weekend chaos it caused. MAGA accounts that claimed to be all-American turned out to be from places like Bangladesh, Nigeria, India, and Serbia, sparking a major debate about why political discourse has become so toxic online.

Read more from Will's False Flag newsletter: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/new-x-twitter-games-location-geolocation-about-right-wing-groypers

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everybody, it's me, Sam Stein.

0:02.0

You are my man, Will Summer, author of the False Flag Newsletter, which you should be getting in your inbox twice a week.

0:09.2

When you get it, that's up to Will.

0:11.0

Sometimes he falls in time and sometimes he doesn't.

0:13.2

We'll see.

0:14.1

Oh, don't laugh.

0:14.8

Well, you know it's true.

0:15.9

Well, I like to keep everyone guessing.

0:18.7

Mostly me.

0:20.1

We're here to talk about his latest edition, which honestly was so great because I was living

0:27.2

it over the weekend.

0:28.5

It is the new geolocation feature on X, formerly known as Twitter, and it's set off an

0:36.9

incredible amount of comedic relief, I would say,

0:41.9

and a little bit of, you know, I don't know, laughing and pointing at a bunch of accounts

0:47.4

that were exposed to be foreign accounts, pretending to be American accounts.

0:52.1

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0:54.8

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0:56.1

All right, Will, before we start at, like, all the people who are mocking everyone and pointing it out and all the infighting that's ensued,

1:04.6

do you know why Twitter made this change where you can now look up the country of origin from the poster?

1:10.7

Yeah, I mean, so there's this

1:11.6

Twitter executive or ex-executive Nikita Beer who had kind of been talking about how they were

1:16.1

going to do this for a few weeks. I think there's this idea that Twitter has been overrun by

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