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Foreign Fake Accounts Target Morocco, X Feature Reveals

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Rabat — X (formerly Twitter) activated a new feature last Friday that displays the country of origin for user accounts — a move that exposed foreign entities targeting Morocco through hostile accounts.

The transparency tool revealed that many accounts operate primarily from Algeria and Canada. Other accounts trace back to various Arab countries, including some nations that publicly claim friendship with Morocco.

Posts on the platform revealed screenshots showing the origin of accounts that claimed to be Moroccans.

What started as X’s Head of Product Nikita Bier referred to an interest in helping users verify the authenticity of content and profiles, ended up revealing that many accounts are run from abroad, with several deliberately damaging Morocco’s reputation.

This country-identification feature stripped away the masks from numerous pages that pretended to operate inside Morocco. Previously, determining a user’s location required complex technical tools.

Experts add that intelligence monitoring had shown for years that several foreign entities work to create digital disturbances inside certain countries, including Morocco.

These groups manipulate engagement around specific topics to push them into trending sections — tactics typically executed through fake accounts that migrated from Facebook to Twitter after Facebook tightened its location-verification procedures.

The new feature also uncovered that many anti-Morocco accounts don’t just run from Algeria, but also from different Arab countries, and notably from Canada.

Several individuals wanted by Moroccan authorities live there — some operating under their real identities, others hiding behind anonymous accounts. They play roles ranging from executing funded agendas to gaining residency benefits in exchange for serving certain entities.

These foreign entities, especially Algerian ones, operate these accounts in coordinated fashion from outside Morocco — reflecting a directed plan to stir chaos and target the country’s internal stability.

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