#Disinformation
Events indexed under #Disinformation — 31 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-04 | DHS $220 Million Self-Deportation Ad Campaign Faces Senate Scrutiny; Contracts Bypassed Competitive Bidding Kristi Noem · John Kennedy · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Safe America Media · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Internal ICE Data Exposes Vast Inflation in DHS Deportation Figures Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | White House Offers Shifting, Contradictory Rationales for Iran War as Intelligence Contradicts Claims Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · Steve Witkoff · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-12 | Trust in Federal Health Agencies Plummets Under RFK Jr. Despite Restoration Promises Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | FDA Vaccine Chief Vinay Prasad Circulates Unsubstantiated Memo Claiming COVID Vaccines Killed At Least Ten Children Dr. Vinay Prasad · FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · FDA Commissioner Martin Makary · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | Investigation Finds 58% of Accounts Supporting Far-Right Portuguese Parties Were Fake Cyabra (investigator) · Far-right Portuguese parties · Fake account networks · Russian disinformation operations | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-09 | Vance Spreads Debunked Anti-Haitian Immigrant Hoax in Springfield, Ohio J.D. Vance · Haitian immigrants · Springfield Police · Bryan Heck · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-14 | FBI Enables Social Media Suppression of Hunter Biden Laptop Story Despite Knowing Authenticity Federal Bureau of Investigation · Twitter · Facebook · Yoel Roth · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-07-08 | Facebook shuts down 54 Roger Stone accounts spending $300K Roger Stone · Facebook | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-23 | Trump Suggests Injecting Disinfectant and UV Light Inside Body as COVID Treatments Donald Trump · William Bryan | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-06 | Trump Wears "Keep America Great" Campaign Hat During CDC Visit, Makes False Testing Claims Donald Trump · Robert Redfield · Alex Azar · Mike Pence · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-28 | Trump Calls Coronavirus "Their New Hoax" at South Carolina Rally Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2019-11-21 | Fiona Hill Testifies - Giuliani Ran Shadow Ukraine Policy for "Domestic Political Errand" Fiona Hill · Rudy Giuliani · John Bolton · Gordon Sondland · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-17 | Zuckerberg Georgetown Speech Announces Facebook Will Not Fact-Check Political Ads, Licensing Trump Campaign Lies Mark Zuckerberg · Facebook · Donald Trump · Joe Biden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-24 | Attorney General Barr Releases Misleading 4-Page Summary of Mueller Report William Barr · Robert Mueller · Donald Trump · Rod Rosenstein | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-20 | Trump Signs Executive Order "Ending" Family Separation After International Outcry Donald Trump · Kirstjen Nielsen · Jeff Sessions · Stephen Miller | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-10 | Kirstjen Nielsen Defends Family Separation as Deterrent, Later Denies Policy Exists Kirstjen Nielsen · Jeff Sessions · Stephen Miller · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-16 | Mueller Indicts 13 Russians and Internet Research Agency for Election Interference Robert Mueller · Internet Research Agency · Yevgeny Prigozhin · Russian Government | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-11 | Trump Creates Presidential Commission on Election Integrity to Investigate Nonexistent Fraud Donald Trump · Kris Kobach · Mike Pence · Matthew Dunlap | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-04 | Trump Falsely Accuses Obama of Wiretapping Trump Tower Based on "A Little Bit of a Hunch" Donald Trump · Barack Obama · James Clapper · James Comey | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-09 | Trump Jr. Accepts Meeting Explicitly Framed as "Russia and Its Government's Support" Donald Trump Jr. · Jared Kushner · Paul Manafort · Natalia Veselnitskaya · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-05 | Roger Stone's Early Connections to Russian Information Networks Roger Stone · Guccifer 2.0 | reported | |
| 2012-05-04 | Heartland Institute Billboard Compares Climate Scientists to Unabomber Heartland Institute · Ted Kaczynski · James Sensenbrenner · State Farm · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2009-11-17 | Climategate Email Hack Manufactures Controversy Before Copenhagen Summit Climate Research Unit · University of East Anglia · Phil Jones · Michael Mann · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2009-09-01 | James O'Keefe's Deceptively Edited ACORN Videos Trigger Destruction of Voter Registration Organization James O'Keefe · Hannah Giles · ACORN | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-18 | Competitive Enterprise Institute Launches "CO2 is Life" Advertising Campaign Competitive Enterprise Institute · Myron Ebell · ExxonMobil · Curt Davis | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-01 | ExxonMobil Channels Millions to Climate Denial Think Tanks and Front Groups ExxonMobil · American Enterprise Institute · Cato Institute · Marshall Institute · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2000-05-05 | ALEC's 'Environmental Literacy Improvement Act' Mandates Teaching Climate Denial in Schools American Legislative Exchange Council · Sandy Liddy Bourne · Heartland Institute · Koch Industries · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1998-04-03 | American Petroleum Institute "Victory" Memo Outlines Climate Disinformation Strategy American Petroleum Institute · Randy Randol · ExxonMobil · Chevron · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1972-09-01 | CREEP Dirty Tricks Campaign Exposed: Segretti Orchestrates Political Sabotage Including Canuck Letter Donald Segretti · Dwight L. Chapin · Ken W. Clawson · Herbert Kalmbach · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1950-02-09 | McCarthy Wheeling Speech Claims 205 Communists in State Department Launching Witch Hunt Joseph McCarthy · Harry S. Truman | confirmed |