Given the sibling comment here, I am wondering if you’ve fallen for a fake screenshot. I hope you did not make this up.
They would have got away with it if they just used Inspect Element!
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.
I'm sure that the screenshot going around shows signs of being edited, I checked that myself. For the rest, I have no idea.
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?
I personally do not trust Twitter, or the government, very much. I also would not be surprised if some government accounts were created at various embassies around the world or through strategic VPN networks, or if general business is conducted through a darknet-like node system which includes allied endpoints. To me those are more plausible.
Then don’t conclude—much less spread as “known”—foreign interference from Twitter/X’s purported location data about the government.