In her first briefing as a White House press secretary, Caroline Levitt said she was “committed to saying the truth from this platform every day.” Moments later it announced that the new administration had prevented a $ 50 million contract for condom in Gaza.
She said: “This is a waste of taxpayer.”
It was also an improper, impossible claim on her face and soon exposed. There were millions of federal grants granted to prevent sexual intercourse diseases in Gaza, but in the province in Mozambique, not the Palestinian territories.
He called on the condom in any case, leaking to the political discourse that President Trump used to justify his full push to reduce the federal government.
The first four years of Mr. Trump at the White House were full of wrong or misleading data – 30,573 of them, or 21 per day on average, according to To one. At that time, the assistants often tried to play or contain the damage of terrible lies.
This time, Mr. Trump joins a group of cabinet officials and advisers who have been inflated and even published. Together, it leads to the institutional character.
While he is still early in his mandate, and many of his executive orders face legal challenges that can weaken the impact of any lies they lead, Mr. Trump and his advisers have entered the country in a new era of post -truth policy, where the facts and imagination used to follow the goals of politics are competed.
Mr. Trump justified amnesty for hundreds of riots convicted of violence, including attacks on police officers, in the Capitol on January 6, 2021, by maintaining “no aggressor”. Canada, an ally of NATO, attacked by claiming that fentanel was flowing across the border, in fact, less than 1 percent of the drug was followed to the country last year.
Brock Rollins, Minister of Agriculture of Mr. Trump, boasted on X that she had canceled a $ 600,000 contract to study menstrual cycles for sexually transgender men, when In reality The grant funded a study on the use of natural fibers such as cotton, wool and hemp in female hygiene products.
Robert F. claimed. Kennedy Junior, skeptical of the vaccine that now runs the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, is that the measles vaccine kills people routinely every year, though Scientists say this is a mistake.
Audrey Mcabi, an analyst in a common case, a non -partisan government control, said the administration has followed the strategy of “excessive pregnancy for misinformation” that was overwhelming not only its opponents but also the judicial system.
How do we retract this when he comes from a person who was elected as a president and those who decided to approach him?” She said.
The wrong novels that were leaking from the dark angles of the Internet are now presented by Mr. Trump and its employees and amplified by the Echo Chamber, which leads to distorting political discourse and doubling the broader erosion of confidence in the institutions themselves.
Elon Musk, Executive Director of Technology, led a cruciate campaign against federal spending, has repeatedly deployed misleading information, including the male -condom in Gaza. He confessed to mistakes, but he pressed unlimited.
He recently described social security as “the greatest Ponzi plan in all times”, which means that one of the most popular government programs is a criminal activity.
Several notes can be explained as an exaggeration of rhetorical effect. Other lies that emit from the administration seem to be errors in facts, and perhaps unintended. Others still can be said in the category of misinformation as deliberate attempts to mislead Americans.
The increase in all these wrong or misleading allegations in political discourse today is also the result of tectonic transformations in the media.
The Americans were increasingly drifted from traditional news organizations and instead went on a digital seizure of the podcast, live broadcast and social media feed, where partisanship and resentment in general prevail over balanced deliberations. The political left has its preferences, but this new media ecosystem is today The right is dominated.
in a lecture Last month, Kate Starbird, a misinformation researcher at Washington University, described it as a “nonsense”, one that was built over time according to the design.
She said that she “has become intertwined with digital media, has been effective effectively by right -wing popular movements and is now drowned in the political infrastructure of this country and others.”
Mr. Trump’s second state has already raised a new generation of online influencers to the lead, as many of them repeat his policies back and forth in jobs, news articles, interviews or comments. He even brought them to the small journalism group at the White House, who was traditionally working as a professional and independent historian for all the movement and speech.
One of them was Brian Glen, a true voice of America, the right -wing flow channel and the cable channel founded in 2020 and that published the theories of wrong and conspiracy. Mr. Glenn was the President of Ukraine, Voludmimer Zelinsky, for not wearing a suit during his oval office meeting with Mr. Trump last month, giving a voice to complain about White House assistants.
“Many Americans”, claimed, on Mr. Zellinski, “have problems not respecting the office.”
For supporters of Mr. Trump, the current moment has become a war on the fact that, at the present time, they win.
“We are launching a campaign of information war in the twenty -first century against the left,” said Jesse Waters, Fox News, last month.
He added: “It is like a popular guerrilla war.” “Someone says something on social media, Musk re -tweets, RoGan Podcasts, and is broadcast by Fox. By the time everyone arrives, millions of people saw it.”
On the day that Mrs. Levitte presented the wrong claim about the condom of Hamas fighters who control Gaza, the online accounts added explosive but misleading or fabricated details even with the continued briefing, and a long time before the prevailing organizations can verify the facts.
The stalled right -wing websites and television programs were stacked, claiming that it was an example of fraud in the United States International Development Agency, which was already announced by Mr. Musk, a “criminal agency”.
An article published by Front Page, which is a conservative site called the supposed “terrorist condom”, and provides the claim of government and media reports from 2018 Hamas fighters were floating improvised explosive devices to Israel using an enlarged condom and other balloons.
The coverage of the coverage found an audience. On X, Mr. Musk platform, publications that mention the claim in any way were seen more than 111 million times in the first 24 hours, according to the data from Documented cloth by AudienseA company that monitors the content there. The “condom” and “Gaza” are mentioned on podcasts, radio programs or TV programs with a joint national audience of 53 million, according to data from CashMedia Monitoring Company.
Many news organizations, including the New York Times, have found that the claim is unfounded, but these real checks did not reach a wide audience.
The United States Agency for International Development spent just less than 61 million dollars on contraceptives around the world in the fiscal year 2023, and the vast majority in Africa and not in Gaza, according to The annual report This has been removed since then from the agency website. A separate grant of $ 68 million last year provided emergency medical care in Gaza through the International Medical Legion, which He said The condom or any other family planning services has not been provided.
Mr. Trump doubled anyway. He announced that the United States did not spend 50 million dollars, but 100 million dollars on the condom of Hamas fighters, and repeated the claim that they are “a means of making bombs.” And he did this recently on February 19, a long period of proof that it was incorrect.
The White House did not respond to questions about the wrong allegations, but that and other lies about the US Agency for International Development’s spending paved the way for a sweeping of the agency’s budget. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio announced on March 10 that it would cancel 5200 contracts – 83 percent of the agency’s total.
In some cases, officials tried to change questions about wrong data. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services indicated an opinion article written by Mr. Kennedy about Fox News, where books The vaccines can protect people from measles, while also argues that “good nutrition” is still “the best defense against most chronic and infectious diseases.
The Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement that although the contract that Mrs. Rollins canceled was actually to study natural fibers “at the surface level”, there was a “educational component” referring to the transgender men. Use the grant proposal the word “transgender” once in a summary to identify the population who may benefit from the search on natural fibers.
Mr. Trump reflected the other moves of Mr. Trump in the efforts made to track and define wrong information and its malicious foreign effect in the name of freedom of expression. He moved to dismantle the responsible government agencies, including one created during his first term at the Cyber Security Agency and infrastructure.
He did this when many handrails in the industry collapse against the spread of already misleading information in light of political and right pressure.
Days before Mr. Trump returned to the White House, Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced that the company will end its third program to create facts on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, and embraced Republicans’ allegations that lying full of signs was often a political motive. The company intends to switch to the use of societal notes, a collective fact -examination effort used by Mr. Musk in X, the platform he bought in 2022.
Mr. Trump’s supporters sometimes depict his wrong or exaggerated statements as negotiating strategies. Mr. Trump himself described the cancellation as a way to achieve an end. He once said in 2021: “If you say that enough and continue to say that, they will start believing you.”
Nevertheless, the consequences can be corrosion – for its own policy goals and a wider scale. He blamed Ukraine, for example, for the full war that Russia began when its forces invaded in February 2022 and called on Mr. Zelinski a dictator to suspend elections while the country was under the law.
James B. Robin, who led the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Participation Center, who watched foreign information and advertising until it lost its funding in December: “It is very difficult to have the rational preservation of Ukraine’s policy if one cannot recognize the fact that Russia invaded Ukraine.”
Mr. Rubio, who once called President Vladimir F. Putin from Russia, a “gang and bullying man”, is now leading the efforts made to jumping talks for a ceasefire, To object to the president’s false allegations When pressing.
The lies of Mr. Trump also raised close allies, including many Europe, and have provoked ridicule in the world.
Laura Thornton, director of global democracy programs at the McCain Institute, a non -party support group called former Senator John S.
She said: “Now that we had a real consensus on the facts of what happened, we have seen a new narration,” which is essential, unfortunately, very in line with the Kremlin narration. “
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