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| 2025 | Hinkle took a pro-Pakistan stance on the Kashmir conflict, claiming the Pahalgam attack was an Indian false flag operation. |
| June 2025 | A significant split occurred in the MAGA movement over Trump's support for Israeli strikes against Iran, with prominent supporters like Tucker Carlson, Rand Paul, Charlie Kirk, Saagar Enjeti, Mollie Hemingway, and Marjorie Taylor Greene criticizing potential United States involvement in the Middle East conflict. |
| 2025 | George Simion ran as a candidate in the Romanian presidential election, drawing comparisons to Donald Trump due to his political style and ideological alignment. |
| March 22 2025 | Attended a four-day Houthi conference in Sanaa, Yemen, meeting Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree and condemning U.S. strikes on Yemen. |
| 2025 | Trump proposed expansionist plans to acquire Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal, drawing comparisons to 19th-century Manifest Destiny doctrine as part of his 'America First' nationalist agenda. |
| March 11 2025 |
Claims of Vladimir Putin's incapacity and death
Vladimir Putin reportedly seen grasping his chest while emergency services arrive almost instantly, sparking renewed speculations about his health and potential medical emergency.
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| March 4 2025 |
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
Trump addressed a joint session of the United States Congress, with news media and fact-checkers again identifying multiple false and misleading statements during his speech.
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| March 2025 | MSNBC highlighted the connections between Trump-appointed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Hinkle's MAGA communist movement. |
| February 2025 |
Firehose of falsehood
A public relations CEO publicly analyzed the 'flood the zone' tactic, explaining its strategic purpose of overwhelming public attention to prevent focused scrutiny of specific actions.
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| February 23 2025 | Attended Hassan Nasrallah's funeral in Beirut, Lebanon, and revealed in an interview with Al Mayadeen that he had been living in Moscow for five months, fearing U.S. government retribution. |
| February 2025 |
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
A public relations CEO explained the 'flood the zone' tactic used by Trump's team to overwhelm media and public perception with rapid, numerous actions.
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| February 2025 |
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
A public relations CEO explains the 'flood the zone' tactic attributed to Steve Bannon, designed to overwhelm public attention and prevent focused scrutiny on specific actions.
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| February 2025 |
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
A public relations CEO explains the 'flood the zone' tactic used by Trump's team, designed to overwhelm public attention and prevent focused scrutiny on specific actions.
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| February 2025 | Trump wrote and pinned a comment on Truth Social and X stating 'He who saves his Country does not violate any Law', which was later reposted by the White House, invoking a phrase similar to one attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte and signaling the administration's aggressive stance on presidential power. |
| February 2025 | Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Donald Trump, discussing topics related to Trumpism and bilateral relations between India and the United States. |
| February 2025 |
Firehose of falsehood
A public relations CEO publicly described the 'flood the zone' tactic as a strategy designed to overwhelm public perception by rapid, continuous information dissemination.
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| January 20 2025 |
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
Donald Trump delivered his official inaugural address at the Capitol's rotunda, followed by additional unscripted speeches at the Capitol Visitor Center's Emancipation Hall and Washington's Capital One Arena. News media and fact-checkers extensively documented multiple false and misleading statements during these events, which largely repeated campaign-era falsehoods.
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| January 2025 | Described his MAGA communist movement as supporting 'Anti-Imperialism, Multipolarity, and Orthodox Communism'. |
| January 2025 | A CNN-SSRS poll revealed that 53% of Republicans viewed loyalty to Trump as central to their political identity, surpassing traditional Republican values such as supporting a less powerful federal government or opposing Democratic policies. |
| 2024 | An investigation by multiple media outlets uncovered leaked documents from the 'Agency of Social Design', revealing their involvement in large-scale disinformation campaigns. The agency produced approximately 40,000 content units (including memes, images, and comments) over a 4-month period, targeting governments of France, Poland, Germany, and Ukraine. |
| 2024 | Denounced the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, describing it as a 'victory for the US-backed al-Qaeda'. |
| 2024 | Trump describes his presidential campaign as a 'righteous crusade' against 'atheists, globalists and the Marxists', emphasizing his connection to Christian nationalist rhetoric. |
| 2024 | Henk de Berg publishes 'Trump and Hitler: A Comparative Study in Lying', examining parallel rhetorical techniques used by Trump and Hitler, including joke usage, personal insults, and deliberate controversy creation. |
| 2024 | Donald Trump wins the 2024 United States presidential election, securing victories in all seven crucial swing states, demonstrating the continued political relevance of Trumpism. |
| 2024 | Zack Beauchamp of Vox analyzed Poilievre's rhetoric, concluding that while drawing Trump comparisons, his policy stance is considerably more moderate than Trump or European radical politicians. |
| 2024 | President Kevin Roberts of The Heritage Foundation publicly declares the organization's intent to 'institutionalize Trumpism', signaling the movement's potential long-term institutional impact. |
| 2024 |
Information laundering
The Alliance for Securing Democracy, University of Amsterdam, and Institute for Strategic Dialogue collaborated to develop an open-source tool designed to identify websites that republish content from Russian state media, aiming to expose information laundering tactics.
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| 2024 |
Hallucination
David Baker received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work using AI hallucinations to design over ten million new proteins, leading to approximately 100 patents and the founding of more than 20 biotech companies.
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| October 2024 | The Washington Post reported Spamouflage targeting specific U.S. politicians like Representative Barry Moore, Marco Rubio, Michael McCaul, and Marsha Blackburn with denigrating content due to their criticism of the Chinese government. |
| October 15 2024 |
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
The Washington Post reported on polls indicating growing voter concern about Trump's age and mental acuity during the presidential campaign.
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| October 15 2024 |
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
The Washington Post reported that polls indicated increasing voter concerns about Trump's age and mental acuity, though the impact on swing voters remained unclear.
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| October 7 2024 | Launched new political show 'Legitimate Targets with Jackson Hinkle', interviewing representatives from the Houthi movement. |
| October 6 2024 |
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
The New York Times published an article analyzing Trump's speech patterns, finding his speeches maintain a fourth-grade complexity level and include more negative and absolute terms compared to previous years.
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| September 2024 | Graphika reported Chinese Spamouflage operations using fake social media users on X and TikTok to manipulate public opinion, targeting political candidates and spreading divisive narratives about social issues. |
| September 2024 |
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
Associated Press/NORC survey revealed that 57% of Americans believed claims from Trump and his campaign are 'rarely' or 'never' based on facts.
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| September 2024 |
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
While campaigning, Trump claimed that the ocean will only rise a '100th of an inch within the next 400 years', contradicting IPCC forecasts of significant sea-level rise.
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| September 18 2024 |
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
On the Gutfeld! show on Fox News, Trump claimed the debate audience had gone 'crazy' about his fact-checking, despite the debate having no live audience.
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| September 12 2024 |
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
The Poynter Institute defined 'sanewashing' as the practice of packaging radical statements to make them seem normal, specifically in relation to Trump's public statements.
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| September 12 2024 |
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
The Poynter Institute defined 'sanewashing' as the practice of packaging radical statements to make them appear normal, highlighting media treatment of Trump's public statements.
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| September 11 2024 |
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
Trump called into Fox & Friends and suggested ABC News should lose its broadcasting license due to the moderators' fact-checking during the previous day's debate.
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| September 10 2024 |
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
During the presidential debate in Philadelphia between Harris and Trump, moderators live fact-checked several of Trump's claims, finding multiple false or misleading statements.
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| September 5 2024 |
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
Trump addressed the Economic Club of New York, delivering a notably incoherent response about childcare, which was later analyzed as an example of his rambling speech patterns.
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| September 5 2024 |
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
Trump addressed the Economic Club of New York, delivering a rambling and incoherent response about child care, economic policy, and 'America First' rhetoric, which became an example of his controversial public speaking style.
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| July 2024 | Invited as an international observer to the Venezuelan presidential election. |
| July 2024 | Noted as one of the main social media influencers sharing a fake story about Olena Zelenska, the First Lady of Ukraine, supposedly purchasing a Bugatti. |
| July 2024 | Participated in a Russian-sponsored press briefing at the United Nations, discussing Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine. |
| July 2024 |
Hallucination
A White House report on fostering public trust in AI research mentions hallucinations in the context of reducing them
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| July 21 2024 | Announced the launch of the American Communist Party (ACP), serving on its Plenary Council, describing it as a reconstitution of the Communist Party USA. |
| June 27 2024 |
Firehose of falsehood
Donald Trump used the 'firehose of falsehood' technique during a CNN debate broadcast, noted by analysts Heather Cox Richardson and Dan Froomkin.
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