UAE-Based BRICS News & Mario Nawfal Change X Location Labels After Jewish Onliner Report
Jewish Onliner identified two UAE-based X accounts as top amplifiers of content portraying Operation Epic Fury as contrary to American interests. Both later changed their X location labels to the U.S.
Following Jewish Onliner’s report on foreign amplification of anti–Operation Epic Fury content on X, two prominent accounts named in the analysis — BRICS News and Mario Nawfal — appear to have changed their X location labels. After publication, Jewish Onliner found that BRICS News appeared as U.S.-based, while Nawfal’s account shifted from a UAE identification to a North America label, including a connection through the North American app store.
Original Report Put Foreign Amplifiers at the Center
Jewish Onliner’s initial review, conducted with an independent social-media analytics firm, examined 100 highly viral X posts with more than 10,000 shares each during the first week of Operation Epic Fury. The firm’s seven-day listening window, covering February 28 through March 7, found 98 million posts, 696.4 million interactions, and 1.5 trillion potential views tied to the keyword “Iran.” Within that dataset, seven of the ten accounts generating the most interaction were based outside the United States, and all seven were negative toward the operation.
The report found that both UAE-based accounts framed the campaign in anti-Western terms and helped shape what millions of users saw in the platform’s high-engagement spaces. In the sample of 100 viral posts,foreign posts generated roughly 155.6 million views, compared with 93.4 million for U.S.-based posts.
Account Location Data Becomes Part of the Story
This story shows that account location data on X has become an important part of the information battle around major geopolitical events. That is especially true when accounts based outside the U.S. help drive some of the most viral narratives around a U.S. national-security issue. When those same accounts later appear with new geographic labels showing them as U.S.- or North America-based after scrutiny, questions about the intent of those narratives come into sharper focus. Jewish Onliner’s original findings also drew follow-on coverage from other outlets, including Iran International, The American Spectator, and Legal Insurrection.