{"id":15145,"date":"2025-03-24T21:45:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T21:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-leads-a-machinery-of-misinformation-in-second-term\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T21:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T21:45:27","slug":"trump-leads-a-machinery-of-misinformation-in-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-leads-a-machinery-of-misinformation-in-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Leads a \u2018Machinery\u2019 of Misinformation in Second Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In her first briefing as White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt said she was \u201ccommitted to telling the truth from this podium every single day.\u201d Moments later she announced that the new administration had blocked a $50 million contract for condoms in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThat is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was also a preposterous claim, improbable on its face and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/06\/us\/politics\/trump-executive-orders-fact-check.html\" title=\"\">quickly debunked<\/a>. There were millions in federal grants awarded to prevent sexually transmitted diseases in Gaza, but in the province in Mozambique, not the Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The condoms claim went viral anyway, seeping into the political discourse that President Trump has used to justify his sweeping push to slash the federal government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s first four years in the White House were filled with false or misleading statements \u2014 30,573 of them, or 21 a day on average, according <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/01\/24\/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">to one tally<\/a>. Back then, though, aides often tried to play down or contain the damage of egregious falsehoods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This time, Mr. Trump is joined by a coterie of cabinet officials and advisers who have amplified them and even spread their own. Together, they are effectively institutionalizing disinformation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While it is still early in his term, and many of his executive orders face legal challenges that could blunt the impact of any falsehoods driving them, Mr. Trump and his advisers have ushered the country into a new era of post-truth politics, where facts are contested and fictions <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/23\/us\/politics\/trump-alternative-reality.html\" title=\"\">used to pursue policy goals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump justified the pardons of hundreds of rioters convicted of the violence, including assaults on police officers, at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, by maintaining that \u201cthey didn\u2019t assault\u201d anyone. He attacked Canada, a NATO ally, by claiming fentanyl was pouring across the border, when in fact <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/06\/world\/canada\/canada-fentanyl-trump.html\" title=\"\">less than 1 percent of the drug<\/a> was traced to the country last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Brooke Rollins, Mr. Trump\u2019s agriculture secretary, boasted on X that she had canceled a $600,000 contract to study the menstrual cycles of transgender men, when <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2025\/mar\/19\/brooke-rollins\/canceled-usda-grant-funded-research-into-all-natur\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in fact<\/a> the grant financed a study on using natural fibers like cotton, wool and hemp in feminine hygiene products.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the vaccine skeptic who now runs the Department of Health and Human Services, claimed that the measles vaccine routinely kills people every year, though <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/03\/14\/rfk-jr-measles-vaccine-death-claims-scientists-disagree\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">scientists say that is false<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Audrey McCabe, an analyst at Common Cause, a nonpartisan government watchdog, said the administration had pursued a strategy of \u201cdisinformation overload\u201d that was overwhelming not only its opponents but also the judicial system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHow do we push back on this when it\u2019s coming from someone who was elected as president and those he\u2019s decided to have close to him?<em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">\u201d <\/em>she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">False narratives that once percolated in the darker corners of the internet are now advanced by Mr. Trump and his appointees and amplified by a media echo chamber, muddying the political discourse and compounding a broader erosion of trust in institutions themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Elon Musk, the technology executive leading a crusade against federal spending, has repeatedly spread disinformation, including the claim about the condoms for Gaza. He has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/02\/11\/us\/president-trump-news\" title=\"\">acknowledged mistakes<\/a> but presses on unchastened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He more recently called Social Security \u201cthe greatest Ponzi scheme of all time,\u201d implying that one of the most popular government programs is a criminal activity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many remarks like that could be construed as exaggerations for rhetorical effect. Other falsehoods emanating from the administration have appeared to be misstatements of facts, perhaps unintentional. Still others arguably fall into the category of disinformation as intentional attempts to mislead Americans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The surge in all these false or misleading claims in today\u2019s political discourse is also a consequence of tectonic shifts in the media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Americans have increasingly drifted from traditional news organizations and landed instead on a digital cacophony of podcasts, livestreams and social media feeds where partisanship, fury and resentment generally prevail over a balanced deliberation of facts. The political left has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/09\/business\/media\/meidastouch-podcast-democrats.html\" title=\"\">its favorites<\/a>, but this new media ecosystem is today <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/google\/right-dominates-online-media-ecosystem-seeping-sports-comedy-and-other-supposedly\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">dominated by the right<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/facultystaff\/lecture\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a lecture<\/a> last month, Kate Starbird, a scholar of disinformation at the University of Washington, described it as a \u201cmachinery of bullshit,\u201d one built over time by design.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She said it \u201chas become intertwined with digital media, has been effectively leveraged by right-wing populist movements and is now sinking into the political infrastructure of this country and others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s second term has already elevated a new generation of online influencers to prominence, many of whom echo his politics back and forth in posts, news articles, interviews or commentary. He has even brought them into the small White House press pool, which has traditionally operated as a professional, independent chronicler of the president\u2019s every movement and utterance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of them was Brian Glenn, a correspondent for Real America\u2019s Voice, a right-wing streaming and cable channel founded in 2020 that has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/07\/us\/politics\/heritage-foundation-2024-campaign-immigration.html\" title=\"\">spread misinformation and conspiracy theories<\/a>. It was Mr. Glenn who hectored Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, for not wearing a suit during his Oval Office meeting with Mr. Trump last month, giving voice to grumblings from White House aides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cA lot of Americans,\u201d he claimed, about Mr. Zelensky, \u201chave problems with you not respecting the office.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For Mr. Trump\u2019s supporters, the current moment has become a war over the truth that, for now, they are winning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe are waging a 21st-century information warfare campaign against the left,\u201d Jesse Watters, the Fox News personality, said last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s like grass-roots guerrilla warfare,\u201d he added. \u201cSomeone says something on social media, Musk retweets it, Rogan podcasts it, Fox broadcasts it. By the time it reaches everybody, millions of people have seen it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On the day Ms. Leavitt floated the false claim about buying condoms for the Hamas fighters who control Gaza, accounts online added explosive but misleading or fabricated details even as the briefing was still underway, and long before mainstream organizations could verify the facts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Avowedly right-wing websites and television programs piled on, claiming it was an example of fraud at the United States Agency for International Development, which Mr. Musk had already declared \u201ca criminal agency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An article by Front Page Magazine, a conservative website, called the supposed aid \u201cterror condoms,\u201d fusing the claim to government and media reports from <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/condoms-kites-birthday-balloons-silly-gaza-weapons-could-lead-to-serious-war\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">2018<\/a> that Hamas fighters were floating improvised explosive devices into Israel using inflated condoms and other balloons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The barrage of coverage found an audience. On X, Mr. Musk\u2019s platform, posts mentioning the claim in any way were seen more than 111 million times in the first 24 hours, according to data from <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tweetbinder.com\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet Binder by Audiense<\/a>, a company that monitors content there. Mentions of \u201ccondom\u201d and \u201cGaza\u201d appeared on podcasts, radio shows or television programs with a combined national audience of 53 million, according to data from <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/criticalmention.com\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Mention<\/a>, a media monitoring company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Numerous news organizations, including <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/06\/us\/politics\/trump-executive-orders-fact-check.html\" title=\"\">The New York Times<\/a>, found the claim to be baseless, but those fact checks did not reach nearly as wide an audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">U.S.A.I.D. spent just under $61 million on contraceptives worldwide in the 2023 fiscal year, the vast majority in Africa and none in Gaza, according to an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250128201143\/https:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-09\/C-and-C-FY2023.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">annual report<\/a> that has since been removed from the agency\u2019s website. A separate $68 million grant last year provided emergency medical care in Gaza through International Medical Corps, which <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/internationalmedicalcorps.org\/press-release\/international-medical-corps-operations-in-gaza\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> it never provided condoms or any other family planning services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump doubled down anyway. He declared that the United States had spent not $50 million but $100 million on condoms for Hamas fighters, and repeated the claim that they were used \u201cas a method of making bombs.\u201d And he did so as recently as Feb. 19, long after it was proved untrue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The White House did not respond to questions about the false claims, but that and other falsehoods about spending by U.S.A.I.D. paved the way for a sweeping cut to the agency\u2019s budget. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on March 10 that he would cancel 5,200 contracts \u2014 83 percent of the agency\u2019s total.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In some cases, officials have tried to deflect questions about the false statements. A spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services pointed to an opinion piece that Mr. Kennedy wrote for Fox News, in which he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-measles-outbreak-call-action-all-us\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> that vaccines could protect people from measles, while also arguing that \u201cgood nutrition\u201d remains \u201ca best defense against most chronic and infectious illnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And the Department of Agriculture said in a statement that though the contract Ms. Rollins had canceled was in fact for a study of natural fibers \u201con a surface level,\u201d there was an \u201ceducational component\u201d that referred to transgender men. The grant proposal used the word \u201ctransgender\u201d once in a summary identifying the populations that might benefit from the research on natural fibers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Other moves by Mr. Trump have reflected animus to efforts to track and identify misinformation and malign foreign influence in the name of free speech. He has moved to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/20\/business\/trump-foreign-influence-election-interference.html\" title=\"\">dismantle the government agencies responsible,<\/a> including one created during his first term at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He has done so when many of the industry guardrails against the spread of disinformation have already unraveled under political and legal pressure from the right. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Days before Mr. Trump returned to the White House, Meta\u2019s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, announced that the company would end its third-party fact-checking program on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, embracing Republican claims that flagging lies was too often politically motivated. The company intends to shift to using Community Notes, a crowdsourced fact-checking effort used by Mr. Musk at X, the platform he bought in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s supporters sometimes depict his false or exaggerated statements as negotiating strategies. Mr. Trump himself has described prevarication as a means to an end. \u201cIf you say it enough and keep saying it,\u201d he said once at a rally in 2021, \u201cthey\u2019ll start to believe you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The consequences, though, can be corrosive \u2014 to his own policy goals and to trust more broadly. He has blamed Ukraine, for example, for the full-blown war that Russia started when its forces invaded in February 2022 and called Mr. Zelensky a dictator for suspending elections while the country is under martial law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-12\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s awfully hard to have a rational conversation about Ukraine policy if one can\u2019t acknowledge the fact that Russia invaded Ukraine,\u201d said James P. Rubin, who led the State Department\u2019s Global Engagement Center, which monitored foreign disinformation and propaganda until it lost its funding in December.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-13\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Rubio, who once called President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia \u201ca gangster and thug\u201d and is now leading efforts to jump-start talks for a cease-fire, declined <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-with-george-stephanopoulos-of-abc-this-week\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">to dispute the president\u2019s false claims<\/a> when pressed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s falsehoods have also infuriated close allies, including much of Europe, and provoked ridicule globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Laura Thornton, senior director for global democracy programs at the McCain Institute, a nonpartisan advocacy group named after the former Republican senator John S. McCain, said that in the case of Ukraine, Mr. Trump was rewriting history to justify his desire for closer ties with Mr. Putin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSo now where we had a real consensus over the facts of what happened, we\u2019ve seen a new narrative emerge,\u201d she said, \u201cwhich is basically, unfortunately, very aligned with the Kremlin narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br 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