Positioning for Propaganda

2024 January

2024-01-26 News outlets reported a wave of misleading claims about immigration, the economy, electric vehicles, the Panama Canal, 2020, and January 6.

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 attacked Wikipedia as “Wokepedia” and later launched “Grokipedia,” drawing comparisons to the conservative alternative encyclopedia Conservapedia.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1871443771424116954

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1983125099973882120

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2025/01/29/why-elon-musk-is-calling-for-a-boycott-of-wikipedia_6737574_13.html

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 received Pentagon press credentials.

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/conservative-activist-laura-loomer-a-trump-ally-says-she-has-new-pentagon-press-pass/

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