Viral Posts Amplify Trump Mobile Preorder Claims

The Verge reports this week that claims Trump Mobile secured nearly 600,000 T1 phone preorders trace back to a single viral social-media post rather than company or Associated Press reporting. Several mainstream outlets and LLM-powered chatbots (Grok, Gemini, ChatGPT) repeated the figure, sometimes misattributing it to AP, while AP denies the number and Trump Mobile has not disclosed preorder totals.
Scoring Rationale
Clear tracing of viral misinformation across outlets and chatbots, strong sourcing but limited technological novelty.
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