Over the weekend, the social media site X made a bold change and allowed users to see the country or wider geographic location where every account was based.

Seems fine, right? Well, the problem is that no one on the internet is real anymore — and a bunch of people were found to be lying about their locations.

Sometimes, these exposés were needed. For example, some people who had used their accounts to solicit donations as alleged victims in warzones were found to be operating from hundreds of miles away.

However, most of the time, these just showed how our internet — and, thus, many of the things that people get mad at online — is in the hands of a few very-online people in the global south.

For example, many American political accounts were mostly foreign-run. “News” accounts with names like “MAGA Nation” and “Dark Maga” were found to be located in Eastern Europe, Nigeria and Thailand. Other accounts, which purported to be simply concerned American citizens living in the U.S. of A., were discovered to be located in Cambodia and Bangladesh.

Of course, it wasn’t just political accounts. “Miami” influencers were found to be from Nigeria, and several general rabble-rousing accounts, which focused primarily on American news stories, were actually posting from India.

In case we needed to remind you, don’t believe everything you see, and everyone you meet, when you’re on the internet. Except us — we would never lie to you!