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Are you sure?

https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1992314672436175055

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Head of Product at X also changed narratives in real-time, going from "this was never shown" for gray accounts like the DHS', to saying the feature was disabled due to incorrect information from IP ranges changing over time - when you're literally just checking their first IP check-in:

https://x.com/lporiginalg/status/1992385445024665655

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And there was, to everyone's credit, DOZENS of X threads of people torture-testing their browser recordings to confirm whether the information was legit or not:

https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1992331293212963080

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Make your own decisions, but that's what I took from the situation.



> Are you sure?

I'm sure that the screenshot going around shows signs of being edited, I checked that myself. For the rest, I have no idea.

https://postimg.cc/gngQL6BY


Maybe THAT screenshot was, but it's not looking good that the information in that screenshot (doctored or not) wasn't exposed.

Also fotoforensics is irrelevant, take a screenshot of an X account's information and you see those black bars. Why would they doctor the "@DHSgov" username otherwise lol?




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