Hanke tweeted on 2 July: “In this week’s inflation table, #Zimbabwe takes the 1st place. On June 30, I measured Zimbabwe’s #inflation at 426%/yr. More than 4x the official inflation rate of 96.4%/yr. Zimbabwe must dump the Zim Dollar & officially adopt the USD.”
Zimbabwe’s annual inflation stood at 96.4% in April but rose to 131.7% in May and to 191.6% in June.
It is not clear why Hanke is still using the April figure when the June figure was released a full seven days before his latest tweet.
While this is not only misleading it could actually be disinformation as Hanke seems to be pushing for Zimbabwe to dump its local currency and adopt his country’s own.
Disinformation is sharing or creating information deliberately with intent to mislead.
Zimbabwe has repeatedly stated that it is not re-dollarising but will continue to use multiple currencies until the end of 2025.
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