1. Journalists and fact checkers have said that Jackson Hinkle has spread disinformation and conspiracy theories.
42 Facts About Jackson Hinkle
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Jackson Hinkle has been banned from YouTube on grounds of disinformation.
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Jackson Hinkle's show, The Dive with Jackson Hinkle, was banned from Twitch for violating misinformation policies and propagating disinformation about the war in Ukraine, motivating its move to Rumble.
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Jackson Hinkle was born on September 15,1999 in San Clemente, California, where he attended public schools, graduating from the San Clemente High School in 2018.
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Jackson Hinkle was an active member of his middle school's surf club, which made him familiar with the impact of plastic pollution and became the catalyst for his entry into activism.
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Jackson Hinkle became active in anti-plastic pollution movements at the age of 17, founding the Team Zissou Environmental Organization, which engaged in environmental lobbying and organized volunteer beach cleanups in Orange County.
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In 2017, Jackson Hinkle became Water Ambassador for The Water Effect at The Ecology Center, and was named one of "The 17 Most Inspirational Kids of 2017" by Reader's Digest, with him being covered in Teen Vogue as one of eight young environmentalists "working to save the earth" that same year.
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In 2018, Jackson Hinkle went to Washington, DC, with representatives of nuclear safety advocacy group San Clemente Green.
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Jackson Hinkle began his political activism in the late 2010s, running in a San Clemente city council special election in 2019 a year after graduating from high school.
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On February 4,2021, Jackson Hinkle announced on Twitter that he had joined the People's Party.
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In June 2023, Jackson Hinkle spoke at the Rage Against the War Machine rally in Washington, DC, which included the involvement of the Libertarian Party, the People's Party, and the far-right conspiratorial LaRouche movement, among others, amplifying Russian disinformation narratives and demanding an end to Western support for Ukraine and to NATO's existence.
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At the rally, Jackson Hinkle expressed support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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In February 2024, Jackson Hinkle appeared on NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo's podcast, being described as at the forefront of "political thought in the country" for the next-generation, and according to Mediaite, advocated for "cessation of all American aid to Israel".
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In March 2024, Jackson Hinkle began posting on Weibo following a collaboration with Guancha and Fudan University's China Institute.
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In July 2024, Jackson Hinkle participated in a Russian sponsored press briefing at the United Nations, during which he talked about the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine he visited.
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On July 21,2024, Jackson Hinkle announced the launch of the American Communist Party, a political party where he serves on the Plenary Council.
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On October 7,2024, Hinkle launched a new political show, Legitimate Targets with Jackson Hinkle, interviewing representatives from the Houthi movement, which is designated by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
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On February 23,2025, Jackson Hinkle attended the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon.
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On March 22,2025, Jackson Hinkle attended a four-day Houthi conference in Sanaa, Yemen hosting pro-Axis of Resistance figures, where he met Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree and made a speech condemning the ongoing US strikes on Yemen.
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Hinkle has a history of publishing misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories, and The Dive with Jackson Hinkle has been a source of controversy.
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Jackson Hinkle has a history of posting pro-Russian and far-right commentary.
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Since being deplatformed, Jackson Hinkle has attracted attention for his tweets regarding the Gaza war, gaining 1.4 million followers on X by October 2023, and has been labeled by The Jewish Chronicle as one of the "most viral misinformation spreaders" in regards to the conflict.
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Jackson Hinkle's tweeting style has come into question, with much of it being criticized as misinformation as well as misleading.
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Jackson Hinkle's posts have been cited and referenced repeatedly by Russian and Iranian state-affiliated media.
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Jackson 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.
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Haaretz quoted the post in a tweet and said that Jackson Hinkle's post "contain[ed] blatant lies" and was not substantiated by their reporting on the attack.
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In October 2023, Jackson Hinkle shared a fake news release stating that the United States was sending billions of dollars in aid to Israel.
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Jackson Hinkle 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.
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Jackson Hinkle followed up by falsely claiming that Iran had declared war on Israel and that Yemen had announced they were at war with Israel.
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Jackson Hinkle has misled 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.
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In December 2023, Jackson Hinkle called for a boycott of the video game Grand Theft Auto VI, linking the game to Zionism.
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In July 2024, Jackson Hinkle was noted as one of the main social media influencers sharing a fake story about Olena Zelenska, the First Lady of Ukraine, purchasing a Bugatti.
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Jackson Hinkle has been described as a pro-Russia operative, and grouped as part of the anti-Israel far-right.
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Jackson Hinkle tweeted that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is "responsible for every death in the Ukraine war" and shared posts on Instagram that praised Putin.
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Jackson Hinkle has urged the Republican Party 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.
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The Gaza war showed a division within the MAGA movement, with Jackson Hinkle criticizing the likes of conservative pundit Ben Shapiro and Trumpist activist Laura Loomer for supporting Israel.
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Jackson Hinkle has been accused by some elements of the MAGA movement of promoting anti-white racism due to his support of South African black nationalist and communist politician Julius Malema and the Economic Freedom Fighters party.
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Jackson Hinkle dubbed the firing of pro-Trump conservative-populist pundit Tucker Carlson as the "end of an era".
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In late 2022, Jackson Hinkle began advocating for the idea of "MAGA Communism", leading it to trend on Twitter.
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Vice described it as a "swirl of social conservatism, patriotism and subversive energy", and described Jackson Hinkle as coming from "the far-right entertainment playbook by agitating on livestreams".
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In January 2025, Jackson Hinkle described his MAGA communist movement as supporting "Anti-Imperialism, Multipolarity, and Orthodox Communism".
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Jackson Hinkle was engaged to Miss Russia 2022 Anna Linnikova and they lived together in Miami, but the couple reportedly separated in December 2023.