Alex Kaplan
Senior Researcher and Contributor at Media Matters for America
Senior Researcher @mmfa, focusing on social media misinfo/disinfo & online extremism. Statements are mine, not employer's. Send tips to [email protected]
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1 month ago |
mediamatters.org | Alex Kaplan
Multiple far-right figures — including Stew Peters and Enrique Tarrio — have launched crypto coins since President Donald Trump launched his official coin in January. Some of the figures have directly invoked Trump and his coin as inspiration for launching their own. In January, just days before taking office for his second term, Trump launched his own meme coin, $Trump.
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2 months ago |
mediamatters.org | Alex Kaplan |Payton Armstrong |Craig Harrington
On Truth Social, President Donald Trump attempted to defend his tariff policy — which economic experts agree will raise prices for consumers and increase the risk of a recession — by amplifying a TikTok video arguing that he “is purposely crashing the market.” The video echoes claims from a post on 4chan that gained traction on the far right.
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2 months ago |
mediamatters.org | Gideon Taaffe |Noah Dowe |Pete Tsipis |Jane Lee |Isabella Corrao |Alicia Sadowski | +1 more
Right-wing media are predicting a “golden age” as President Donald Trump's so-called “Liberation Day” hits some of the United States’ closest trading partners with sweeping tariffs.
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2 months ago |
mediamatters.org | Alex Kaplan
Steve Stern — a right-wing podcaster who claims to be “a leading advocate” for so-called “election integrity” and boasts ties to former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell — claimed that Lindell was directly involved with the Trump administration’s attempt to legally intervene in former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters’ criminal conviction under Colorado law.
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Feb 26, 2025 |
mediamatters.org | Alex Kaplan
Brenden Dilley, a far-right podcaster and leader of a pro-Trump “meme team,” highlighted the role of right-wing podcasters in the Trump administration, saying there would be “nobody left doing podcasts soon” because “the top people” would all be working for the administration and specifically hyping the appointments of Dan Bongino and Graham Allen for deputy director of the FBI and digital media director of the Department of Defense, respectively.
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RT @AlKapDC: New from me: Since South Korea's then-president declared martial law in December in part due to baseless election fraud claim…
What this shows: Some in the far-right internet are now taking their false election denial claims international, giving election denial figures from other countries a platform to speak to sympathetic Americans.
New from me: Since South Korea's then-president declared martial law in December in part due to baseless election fraud claims, U.S. far-right & election denial figures hosted on their podcasts South Koreans to help them push those election fraud claims. https://t.co/Rcyek72awC
RT @AlKapDC: As the year comes to a close & we think about the impact & spread of online misinformation, I'm just going to note here that t…