An influencer who spent seven days completely convinced that the moon had vanished has attended President Donald Trump’s first ‘new media’ briefing.
The administration announced last month that it would launch a news-style website that publishes positive coverage of Trump.
Speaking to Axios, a White House official said that the site will be ‘a place for supporters of the president’s agenda to get the real news’.
The White House also held its first ‘new media’ briefing on Monday (April 28).
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While the media briefing usually only hosts credentialed journalists, Trump is shaking things up by inviting social media influencers in.
One particular influencer who was invited spent the last year convinced that the moon has disappeared.
Kambree Nelson, who is an ambassador for the American First Policy Institute, attended the press briefing earlier this week.
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Led by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, she said: “This is our first official influencer briefing. Millions of Americans are now turning to social media and independent media outlets to consume their news, and we are embracing that change, not ignoring it.”
Nelson has over 600,000 followers on X, formerly Twitter, and received backlash online after she asked Leavitt to tell her what questions she should be asking.
Back in October, Nelson raised the alarm over the apparent disappearance of the moon.
At the time she said: “Has anyone seen the moon lately? I’ve been looking for 7 days.”
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Even more bizarrely, one of her followers agreed with her, claiming that they also couldn’t find the moon, claiming that it had ‘disappeared’.
In response, Nelson said: “It has, why is everyone silent about this?”
That isn’t the only conspiracy theory that the influencer has thrown around.
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She has also said that the sun was suspiciously ‘white’ in color and that people were ignoring a serious issue.
One intuitive follower made a suggestion that Nelson should try looking for the moon at night, but she wasn’t convinced, writing back: “It’s gone.”
One person said that they had seen the moon that same evening but even that didn’t put Nelson’s mind at rest.
Instead, she responded to say that none of her friends ‘in 4 states can find it’.
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A Community Note was added to the tweets to clarify that the moon had not actually disappeared.
Despite this, it looks like Nelson is one of the influencers who has been trusted with getting the facts from the White House press briefing.
The new style of briefing will be entirely social media influencer focussed.