[19] His 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.

[28] His posts and commentary have been cited by Russian and Iranian state media,[31] and he has appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight, One America News Network,[20] and RT.

[42][43][5] 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.

[44][45] During this campaign, which was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America,[46] he advocated that the city of San Clemente have its own police department, he "categorically and unconditionally" opposed the legalization of prostitution, and proposed combating the presence and effect of nuclear waste in the area.

[4] In October 2022, Hinkle and fellow Twitch streamer Haz Al-Din went to Twitchcon, where they filmed themselves "harassing seemingly random attendees" and mocked topics like COVID-19 face masking, support for Ukraine, and calls for online content moderation.

[16][50][better source needed][51] In February 2024,[52] 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".

[21] In July 2024, 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.

[61] Since being deplatformed, Hinkle has attracted attention for his tweets regarding the Israel–Hamas war, gaining 1.4 million followers on X by October 2023,[29] and has been labeled by The Jewish Chronicle as one of the "most viral misinformation spreaders" in regards to the conflict.

[7] The ADL identified him as one of five key far right influencers on X who had used the conflict to gain an audience, whose combined follower count increased by over 1070% in the period, Hinkle reaching over 2.6 million in late 2023.

[19][73] He has also 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.

[18] In July 2024, Hinkle was noted as one of the main social media influencers sharing a fake story about Olena Zelenska, the First Lady of Ukraine, purchasing an expensive Bugatti.

[74] Hinkle has been variously described as far-right,[13][19] right-wing,[9][18] a conservative,[16][17] "pro-Trump",[75][76] a "former Bernie Bro",[77] "avowedly progressive",[6] and an "extreme left-wing ideologue";[5] primarily as a social media influencer,[69][17][27][13] and political commentator,[16][9][72] as well as an Internet troll,[18] and YouTuber.

[29] Emanuele Ottolenghi and Marina Rosenberg, respectively the Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Senior Vice President for International Affairs at the Anti-Defamation League, wrote that Hinkle is a "known conspiracy theorist, and a staunch admirer of Russia's Vladimir Putin,[80] and Syria's Bashar al-Assad; he has denied China's repression of its Uyghur minority as well as the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against its own people.

[75][9][76] He tweeted that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is "responsible for every death in the Ukraine war" and shared posts on Instagram that praised Putin.

[9][84] According to Euromaidan Press, Hinkle claimed that Zelenskyy is a dictator who was building a "fascist, dystopian state" in Ukraine,[85] and newspaper Türkiye wrote that he believed the president would suffer the same fate as Osama bin Laden.

[87] The 2023 Israel–Hamas war also showed a division within the MAGA movement, with Hinkle criticizing the likes of conservative pundit Ben Shapiro and Trumpist activist Laura Loomer for supporting Israel.

[88][87][89] 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 (EFF) party.

MAGA communists criticized liberal identity politics, denounced American imperialism, and dismissed climate change efforts as "virtue-signaling" and "green fascism".

Interviewed by One America News Network host Addison Smith in September 2022, Hinkle echoed conspiracy theories about George Soros, saying: "Communism and Marxism historically have been conservative.

"[20] Daniel HoSang, a professor at Yale University and an expert on modern American right-wing movements, told Motherboard that "it doesn't necessarily mean communism in the literal sense of, say, demanding collective ownership.

"[20] Brian Hughes, the associate director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) at American University, said: "Various figures are trying to take advantage of the moment.