Something weird going on in social media regarding Undersecretary of the Air Force Matthew Lohmeier.
At the end of April 2026, there were suddenly posts on social media channels like X, Facebook, LinkedIn, saying,
“BREAKING: Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, who Biden FIRED for exposing rampant DEI in the Pentagon, has just been confirmed by the Senate as Under Secretary of the Air Force.”
This account (which has a military profile picture and says Semper Fi in the description) has 14,000 followers, yet this post had 317,000 views, 47,000 likes, 11,000 re-posts from people to their own accounts (spreading the word), 860 comments and 650 bookmarked the post on X.
Only he hasn’t “just been confirmed”— that happened at the end of July 2025 (see this article from the Pentagon: Former F-15 Pilot Confirmed by Senate as Air Force Undersecretary), a full nine months ago.
More examples:
Here’s an example from Facebook:
And Instagram:
LinkedIn:
These late April-early May 2026 posts were viewed and liked across social media platforms by tens if not hundreds of thousands of people, who apparently didn’t know Matt was already working in the job for the past nine months.
“Congratulations!” “Amazing news!” “Awesome!” “It’s about time!” “Excellent!” “Welcome back!” “A comeback that’s turning heads” “Congratulations, you will do great!” “That took forever Sen Thune, you suck at your job!” said so many in the comments. They reposted the news on their feeds and the information spread. Many were taken in thinking this was current news. Luckily there were some who knew that Matt was confirmed last year.
The accounts writing the source posts did seem obscure and supposedly doing it for the ever-needed requirement to constantly feed the social media beast with viral content for influence and money. People like Matt and any time there is a post about him, it gets a lot of attention. It was interesting, though to observe how many normal people got swept up in this erroneous “breaking” news. It’s a good example that you can’t always trust what people are posting as “breaking news” on social media (where the majority of people get their news).
Some of the posts seemed like they were written by AI, like this one:
And it does seem like it was an entire exercise in someone initially looking for viral clickbait by copying old news and posting it as new, breaking news for clicks, influence and money.
This is a real account that posted the news back in July:
Look familiar?
It’s not only money some of these accounts are after, if they are foreign account farms, it’s also building up of influence and trust so when the time is right, they can insert a desired narrative into the mainstream to sway opinion.
Be discerning!
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