Positioning for Propaganda
2024 January
2024-01-26 News outlets reported on a cascade of misleading claims not limited to immigration, the economy, electric vehicles, the Panama Canal, 2020, and January 6th.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/trump-white-house-lies-immigration-economy
https://www.cnn.com/politics/fact-check-trump-false-claims-debunked
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump
2024 December
2024-12-24 Elon Musk began attacking Wikipedia as “Wokepedia”. By October 2025 he created his own “Grokipedia”. This platform is like the alt-right “Conservapedia” created in 2006, which attacks science-based facts, homosexuality, and pro-choice. Online resources report that Conservapedia also peddles misinformation about the AIDS epidemic and conspiracy theories, among other topics.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1871443771424116954
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1983125099973882120
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/29/nx-s1-5588695/wikipedia-grokipedia-comparison
https://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia
2025 November
2025-11-03 Conservative activist Laura Loomer was given press credentials to cover the Pentagon.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5587848-pentagon-credentials-laura-loomer/
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4877506-laura-loomer-trump-criticism/
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1985560924720124414
2025-11-14 Mike Johnson used the government shutdown to claim multiple times that the Democrats “broke the American healthcare system”.
https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2770