Alex Kaplan

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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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Trump promotes video in defense of economic and tariff policies that seems to echo 4chan claim that he is purposely crashing the market

3 weeks 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.
Right-wing media tell Americans to embrace the tariff pain, wait for a “golden age”

3 weeks 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.
MAGA podcaster claims Mike Lindell spurred Trump to have DOJ intervene in Tina Peters case

1 month 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.
Trump “meme team” leader Brenden Dilley: “There’s going to be nobody left doing podcasts soon because the top people are all going to work for the government”

1 month ago | 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.
Laura Loomer takes credit for Trump’s Panama policy

2 months ago | mediamatters.org | Alex Kaplan

LAURA LOOMER (HOST): Somebody said the Darién Gap story was only Laura. So on top of all the news with USAID tonight, I was mentioning in my monologue how the NGOs are directly tied to USAID because they’re getting their funding through USAID. Well, as many of you know, I’m close with President Trump. I do not work for President Trump.
Right-wing media defend Trump's call to “take over” Gaza and expel Palestinians

2 months ago | mediamatters.org | Noah Dowe |Helena Hind |Jane Lee |Isabella Corrao |Alicia Sadowski |Alex Kaplan | +1 more

On Tuesday, during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump said the United States “will take over” and take “ownership” of Gaza, displacing its population and redeveloping it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” Right-wing media immediately justified — and in some cases, outright endorsed — Trump’s statements, with some figures arguing Palestinians and others in the region “should be grateful” and declaring that “the strategic goal in...
The anti-vaccine figures who claim to be working with Trump and RFK Jr.’s teams

2 months ago | mediamatters.org | Alex Kaplan

Christiane Northrup is a health misinformer who has claimed COVID-19 “was part of a plot involving Deep State brainwashing and treacherous depopulation schemes,” “called the Centers for Disease Control a ‘covid death cult,’ and described the [COVID-19] vaccines as crimes against humanity.” She has also repeatedly promoted pro-Nazi, antisemitic, and QAnon material.
Right-wing media lashed out at JD Vance for saying violent January 6 defendants shouldn't be pardoned. Trump apparently listened to them.

2 months ago | mediamatters.org | Jack Wheatley |Alex Kaplan

Last week, just hours after taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 individuals in connection to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, including those convicted of violent offenses against law enforcement officers.
January 6 participants are touring right-wing media and calling for retribution following Trump’s pardon

Jan 24, 2025 | mediamatters.org | Payton Armstrong |Jack Winstanley |Alex Kaplan

Trump issued “full, complete and unconditional” pardons to January 6 participants, including “violent offenders,” and commuted the sentences of members of extremist groups who had been convicted of seditious conspiracy. According to The New York Times, “The pardons will also wipe the slate clean for violent offenders who went after the police on Jan. 6 with baseball bats, two-by-fours and bear spray and are serving prison terms, in some cases of more than a decade.
California fires live updates: Tens of thousands of LA residents flee homes as Pacific Palisades blaze spreads to Pasadena

Jan 7, 2025 | theage.com.au | Riley Walter |Alex Kaplan |Michael Idato

By Alex KaplanRimmed to the south by a 3-mile stretch of Pacific beach, and to the north by craggy bluffs and deep, verdant canyons, the seaside enclave of Pacific Palisades has long been a celebrity hideaway and magnet for those drawn to nature’s doorstep not far from the skyline of downtown Los Angeles.

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18 Apr 25

RT @AlKapDC: Right-wing podcaster Joe Oltmann announced yesterday on his podcast that he would be suing Rumble & "start[ing] a campaign goi…

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18 Apr 25

RT @AlKapDC: This also comes as an ally of Mike Lindell said on multiple podcasts that the Trump administration intervened with Tina Peters…

Alex Kaplan @AlKapDC

18 Apr 25

This also comes as an ally of Mike Lindell said on multiple podcasts that the Trump administration intervened with Tina Peters' prosecution in March because Lindell asked Trump to get involved when he met Trump in February. https://t.co/NKplpUa9pR

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Articles

Trump promotes video in defense of economic and tariff policies that seems to echo 4chan claim that he is purposely crashing the market

Right-wing media tell Americans to embrace the tariff pain, wait for a “golden age”

MAGA podcaster claims Mike Lindell spurred Trump to have DOJ intervene in Tina Peters case

Trump “meme team” leader Brenden Dilley: “There’s going to be nobody left doing podcasts soon because the top people are all going to work for the government”

Laura Loomer takes credit for Trump’s Panama policy

Right-wing media defend Trump's call to “take over” Gaza and expel Palestinians

The anti-vaccine figures who claim to be working with Trump and RFK Jr.’s teams

Right-wing media lashed out at JD Vance for saying violent January 6 defendants shouldn't be pardoned. Trump apparently listened to them.

January 6 participants are touring right-wing media and calling for retribution following Trump’s pardon

California fires live updates: Tens of thousands of LA residents flee homes as Pacific Palisades blaze spreads to Pasadena

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