, that will likely be highlighted on their profile.”
He also addressed concerns over exposing people’s location, given that there are some areas where speech could have penalties, saying that X may substitute region for country in those cases.
The idea of displaying more information about a social media account to help users understand who they may be engaged with on social media is not new. In a recent interview at Bloomberg’s Screentime conference, for instance, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that users on the photo- and video-sharing app today could visit someone’s profile and see a similar set of information.
“Today, if you go to my profile, you can go to ‘About this profile,’ and you can see how long I’ve had this profile, what country I’m based in, how many times I’ve changed my username — a series of signals that you can use to decide how much you want to trust or not trust,” he said, noting that Instagram may “do more” to provide additional context in the future.
The changes on X, if they roll out publicly, could help address issues around trust to some extent, though scammers and spammers often have effective ways of working around attempts at exposure.
The news follows a recent bot purge on X, where the company removed 1.7 million bots engaging in reply spam.
