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Journalists and fact checkers like
Bellingcat have said that Hinkle has spread
disinformation[25] and
conspiracy theories.
[27] He has been banned from a number of
social media networks on grounds of disinformation.
[20] His show was banned from
Twitch for violating misinformation policies and propagating
disinformation about the war in Ukraine, motivating his move to Rumble.
[14][16] Since the start of the
2023 Israel–Hamas war, his posts on
X attracted virality,
[14] with some described as
disinformation in the war.
[29] His posts and commentary have been cited by Russian and Iranian state media,
[32] and he has appeared on
Tucker Carlson Tonight,
One America News Network,
[21] and
RT.
[14]
Conspiracy theories and misinformation
Hinkle has a history of publishing misinformation,
[8][18] disinformation,
[14][24] and conspiracy theories,
[20][26][56][9] and his show has also been a source of controversy.
[57][58][59] In April 2022, the Tech Transparency Project stated that the show was peddling "
Putin propaganda" in violation of the site rules of
Twitch, where the show was hosted on.
[49] The show violated the three new policies outlined by Twitch, namely "(1) persistently sharing (2) widely disproven and broadly shared (3) harmful misinformation topics, such as conspiracies that promote violence."
[49] The show was eventually taken off Twitch and
YouTube for
misinformation about the war in Ukraine.
[14][16] Hinkle also has a history of posting pro-Russian and far-right commentary.
[59]
Since being
deplatformed, Hinkle has attracted attention for his tweets regarding the
Israel–Hamas war, gaining 1.4 million followers on X (formerly
Twitter) by October 2023,
[30] and has been labeled by
The Jewish Chronicle as one of the "most viral misinformation spreaders" in regards to the conflict.
[16] Grouped as part of an online
reactionary and paid
clout-chasers for leveraging pro-Palestine views, he once proclaimed: "I do everything for the clout, you will never see me do something not for the clout."
[26]
Hinkle's tweeting style has come into question, with much of it being criticized as misinformation as well as misleading. His posts have been cited and referenced repeatedly by Russian and Iranian state-affiliated media.
[11][26][60] For example, the Russian news outlet
Lenta.ru used a headline quoting Hinkle's suggestion that the
2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive be labeled as a suicide mission.
[61] In the wake of the Israel–Hamas conflict, Hinkle was deplatformed from YouTube,
[11] calling himself the "most censored man on YouTube",
[10] as well as the "most viral worldwide".
[26] With posts reaching over 20 million views as of November 2023,
[13] Hinkle reached 2 million followers on X,
[14][62] where he offers a premium subscription to those wanting to help him "DEFEAT THE ZIONIST LIES".
[16] In August 2023, Bloomberg reported that Hinkle had requested antisemitic
AI-generated images of "satanic George Soros" using a tool called
Midjourney,
[8] which a study found to be easy to generate racist and conspiratorial images.
[63] A Bloomberg article in November 2023 about misinformation on X said Hinkle was "known for spreading antisemitic hate speech in the past".
[8]
A graphic image from the
October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel was shared on X by Israel's prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as the conservative commentator
Ben Shapiro. Hinkle subsequently claimed that the image was fake due to an inaccurate
AI detector classification; however, the image was not determined to be fake by other AI detectors according to
DW fact-checkers.
[13] Hinkle also falsely claimed on X that
Haaretz had reported that the Israeli government inflated the death toll for the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.
[62][nb 1] Haaretz quoted the post in a tweet and said that Hinkle's post "contain[ed] blatant lies" and was not substantiated by their reporting on the attack.
[64][65]
In October 2023, Hinkle shared a fake news release stating that the United States was sending billions of dollars in aid to Israel.
[7] He also published fake news on the arrival of the
United States Marines in Israel, using an image from July 2022 in Romania that was unrelated to Israel.
[66] Hinkle followed up by falsely claiming that Iran had declared war on Israel and that Yemen had announced they were at war with Israel.
[14][67][68] Before deleting his post, Hinkle also claimed that video footage showed Israel bombing hospitals; however, the footage instead showed an infirmary in
Aleppo dated to 2016.
[20][69] He has also mislead his audience after posting an old video from 2018 of a three-year old being detained by border police in
Hebron, in the southern
West Bank, receiving over one million views.
[59] On November 12, 2023, Hinkle posted on X a photo of a woman near a demolished building, with the caption: "You CANNOT BREAK the Palestinian spirit."
[18] Fact checking discovered that the captioned photo, which showed a woman stepping down the stairs of a demolished building, was not from Palestine but from Syria, and had been submitted in 2020 for the
Siena International Photo Awards.
[18][20]
In December 2023, Hinkle called for a boycott of the video game
Grand Theft Auto VI, linking the game to Zionism.
Vice disputed the game's links to Zionism and described them as a conspiracy theory.
[19]
In July 2024, Hinkle was noted as one of the main social media influencers sharing a fake story about
Olena Zelenska, the
First Lady of Ukraine, purchasing an expensive
Bugatti.
[70]
Views
Hinkle has been variously described as
far-right,
[14][20] right-wing,
[10][19] a
conservative,
[17][18] "avowedly
progressive",
[6] and an "
extreme left-wing ideologue";
[5] primarily as a
social media influencer,
[18][28][14] and
political commentator,
[17][10][68] as well as an
Internet troll,
[19] and
YouTuber. Hinkle describes himself as an "
American Conservative Marxist–Leninist",
[16] as a
Stalinist and
Maoist,
[5] and as a "
MAGA Communist".
[51][71] Hinkle has also been described as a
pro-Russia operative,
[10][72] and grouped as part of the anti-Israel far-right.
[30] Emanuele Ottolenghi and Marina Rosenberg, respectively the Senior Fellow at the
Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Senior Vice President for International Affairs at the
Anti-Defamation League, wrote that Hinkle is a "known
conspiracy theorist, and a staunch admirer of Russia's
Vladimir Putin and Syria's
Bashar al-Assad; he has denied
China's repression of its Uyghur minority as well as
the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against its own people."
[11] Hinkle has referred to al-Assad as a hero
[20] and has professed admiration for
Joseph Stalin.
[73] Russian-American journalist
Cathy Young described Hinkle as a "ragebait-monetizing 'MAGA communist' troll".
[71]
Hinkle has been described as vocally pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine. He tweeted that Ukrainian president
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is "responsible for every death in the Ukraine war" and shared posts on Instagram that praised Putin.
[10][74] According to
Euromaidan Press, Hinkle claimed that Zelenskyy is a dictator who was building a "fascist, dystopian state" in Ukraine,
[75] and newspaper
Türkiye wrote that he believed the president would suffer the same fate as
Osama bin Laden.
[76] He has urged the
Republican Party (GOP) to reject
Zionism, and called for MAGA-aligned GOP Representative
Jim Jordan to focus on American domestic issues rather than backing additional military aid to Israel.
[77] The
2023 Israel–Hamas war also showed a division within the MAGA movement, with Hinkle criticizing the likes of conservative pundit
Ben Shapiro and
white nationalist activist
Laura Loomer for supporting Israel.
[78][77] In April 2023, Hinkle dubbed the firing of fellow conservative-populist pundit
Tucker Carlson as the "end of an era".
[79]
MAGA communism
In late 2022, Hinkle began advocating for the idea of "
MAGA communism", leading it to trend on Twitter.
Vice described it as a "swirl of social conservatism, patriotism and subversive energy", and described Hinkle as coming from "the far-right entertainment playbook by agitating on livestreams".
[21] Hinkle and other supporters of the idea argued that those who care about the working class should ally with the MAGA movement, which they considered to be the largest
anti-establishment populist movement in the United States, to incite a
populist revolution. MAGA communists criticized liberal
identity politics, denounced
American imperialism, and dismissed
climate change efforts as "virtue-signaling" and "green fascism". Interviewed by
One America News Network host Addison Smith in September 2022, Hinkle echoed
conspiracy theories about George Soros, saying: "Communism and Marxism historically have been conservative. It's a new era in the West that made it adhere to liberal-leftist values. This is not true Marxism. It's Marxism funded by George Soros. They don't want communists,
left-wing populists,
right-wing populists, uniting on common issues to fight the
deep state."
[21] Hinkle was questioned on whether he actually supported
communism; he said that the United States can learn from the Soviet Union and Communist China, that
Marxism–Leninism has historically been conservative, and that what he described as communism's "liberal-leftist values" are a perversion "funded by George Soros".
[21]
Personal life
Hinkle is a
Christian.
[84] He was engaged to
Miss Russia 2022
Anna Linnikova and they lived together in
Miami,
[85] but the couple reportedly separated in December 2023.
[86]
Notes
Hinkle tweeted that the Israeli news outlet
Haaretz had reported: "Number of people
Hamas shot less than 100, most were
settlers with guns on them."
[64] Haaretz responded: "This post contains blatant lies about the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7. It has absolutely no basis in
Haaretz's reporting, then or since."
[64]