With news that former President Trump has called for protests in response to the story that he is going to be arrested this week, the George Washington Initiative has been monitoring emerging online narratives spreading disinformation and misinformation surrounding the event.

Here are the two prevailing DisMis narratives we are tracking on eighteen unique platforms, with the most happening on Telegram, Twitter, Reddit, and Parler. https://t.co/5i4DE8xlOw

“This is a false flag operation” - An emerging theme is that Trump has already been arrested and that the Federal Government is sending messages from his social media accounts in order to incite violence and arrest Trump supporters. https://t.co/mK1bGVMFJY

“Pull your money from Banks” - There is an emerging movement from supporters that if the former President is arrested, his supporters should pull their money in organized bank runs to cause a financial collapse and hurt the “globalists” who are arresting Trump. https://t.co/C1CRyr2WhT

The George Washington Initiative will continue to monitor these and other emerging narratives and provide updates.

Story on Trump's possible indictment: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/18/politics/donald-trump-manhattan-da-arrest-protests/index.html