The Trump administration’s newly launched White House App is under scrutiny after a software developer claimed to have found embedded code that tracks users’ precise GPS coordinates every 4.5 minutes and automatically syncs them to a third-party server. The claim, posted on 28 March 2026 by the X account @Thereallo1026, has drawn nearly 260,000 views and prompted questions about data collection practices in government-operated applications.

The post included what appeared to be decompiled source code from the app, revealing what the user described as OneSignal’s ‘full GPS pipeline compiled in.’ According to the post, the code showed the app ‘polling your location every 4.5 minutes, syncing your exact coordinates to a third-party server.’ The White House has not publicly responded to the specific technical claims.

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    3 hours ago

    its gotta be hard to be a conspiracy theorist nowadays where every theory turns out to be true

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      19 minutes ago

      I don’t see this information as being particu relevant. There are various boards and committees where half the people are government and half of them are from Google. From what I gather, Google more or less functions as the mass surveillance arm of the government, so a Government App serving this purpose would be redundant.

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      2 hours ago

      I wish any of the conspiracy theorists theories are the real theories.

      They are all into pizzagate and flat earth, and not “huh, I bet the government’s app is a peice of shit that’s tracking me”

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        There’s a lot of that, it is just that typical media does not cover them as they are not “interesting”. Like, there was a Surrounded debate where they brought a lot of conspiracy theorists with one journalist, and iirc they only talked about one topic regarding the government, rest was just flat earth, aliens etc.

        There are a lot of theorists that claim how much the government is lying about things, manipulating the masses etc, most of which is slowly coming true.

        On a side note, if you have played GTA SA, you must have seen The Truth talking so much nonsense. I would like to share this as I have always found this very funny.

        CJ: What’s with all the aluminum foil, man?

        The Truth: Protection from mind control, dude.

        CJ: Mind control?

        The Truth: Induction of images, sound or emotion using microwave radiation. D’you know how many government satellites are watching any citizen at any moment?

        CJ: No.

        The Truth: Twenty three. Do you know how many religious relics are kept at The Pentagon?

        CJ: No, I don’t.

        The Truth: Twenty three. You see a pattern emerging here, man?

        CJ: Man, I’m seeing patterns all over the place! Get that smoke out of my face!

        Hehe.

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        29 minutes ago

        Honestly, with this admin… I think pizzagate is one of those “every accusation is a confession” deals

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        hey i’m a bigfoot truther. his name is larry and he’s real into hugs

        i mean that’s it. we don’t really have much beyond he sings like a moose that one time we let him use the shower. WHICH WAS A MISTAKE HE CLOGGED THE DAMN THING. but he sang like a moose.

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      Conspiracy theorists never actually believe in the actual conspiracies. No it’s always the lamp posts broadcasting nanobots into your blood. And not that the phone that has tracking capabilities is tracking you, in fact no conspiracy theorist ever has ever been worried about their iPhone or billionaires sending plenty text emails to each other about to listen activities.