Trump did not issue an order
One internet user became interested in a presidential memorandum signed last year regarding leadership in developing 6G communication technologies. However, she interpreted the content of the document in her own way: “Trump ORDERED to accelerate the deployment of 6G to control ‘IMPLANTABLE TECHNOLOGIES’.
This will include artificial intelligence brain chips, which will eventually be implanted using nanotechnology rather than surgically.
The 6G surveillance network will allow monitoring people in real time even through walls.
It seems that most people do not understand what kind of danger the future holds,” – the internet user reasoned.
What the memorandum states
In December 2025, D. Trump signed a presidential memorandum (archived) aimed at ensuring US leadership in developing 6G technologies.
The document states: “Next-generation mobile networks (6G) will be essential to the national security, foreign policy, and economic prosperity of the United States.
This technology will play a crucial role in creating and deploying new technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and implantable technologies. 6G will also provide faster, more resilient, and more secure communication networks that can be used for national security and public safety purposes.”
The brain chips mentioned by the internet user may be referred to as implantable technologies, but the document does not elaborate specifically on these technologies.
The interpretation that “D. Trump seeks to control implantable technologies or ‘brain chips’” is incorrect. Although implantable technologies are mentioned in the document, they are presented only as one example of innovations that 6G connectivity may enable. The main US goal is to surpass China in the technological race, ensure network security, and foster innovation, not to control people.
Fight for technological dominance
The Trump administration announced in July a 6G development partnership with 20 allies aimed at limiting China’s influence in the telecommunications sector. Arielle Roth, head of the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), warned against relying on an “outdated model based on censorship, surveillance, and control.”
The US has stated that Chinese telecommunications companies pose specific risks and for many years, starting from Trump’s first term, has urged allies to avoid partnerships with Chinese companies “Huawei” and “ZTE” due to unreliable equipment.
Based on the same theories
The internet user’s claims about chip implantation using nanotechnology (without surgery) echo popular but scientifically unfounded myths that previously circulated about 5G connectivity. The White House document does not mention anything like this.
Although companies like Neuralink are indeed developing brain implants, they are implanted surgically and intended for medical purposes, not mass surveillance.
6G technology is still in the research phase, and its commercial deployment is forecasted only around 2030. However, for conspiracy theorists, the technological difference between 5G and 6G is not important – they rely on the same myths.
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Although implantable technologies are mentioned in Trump’s memorandum, the Facebook user makes hasty and incorrect conclusions. The document does not specifically mention brain chips, and unfounded claims about nanotechnology are an old conspiracy theory.
According to the internet user, microchips or nanochips were allegedly inserted into vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic, which allow controlling people via 5G connectivity. These are fabrications that do not correspond to reality. The scientific term “nanotechnology” simply describes anything created at the nanoscale (0.000000001 m or 1 x 10^-9 m).
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Claims that the 6G network will allow monitoring people in real time “even through walls” imply a secret surveillance program, which the official document does not mention. This is a free interpretation by conspiracy theorists.
Legacy of the pandemic
European Union (EU) experts fighting disinformation identified linking 5G networks with COVID-19 as one of the most frequently repeated falsehoods. According to a 2020 survey, about 13% of Lithuanians believed this myth (the European average was 6%).
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Spreaders of falsehoods often mention a “secret plan” to add very small radio wave transmitters (RFID) to vaccines, which allegedly would help track people or even cause diseases. The global “chipping” theory is often linked to billionaire Bill Gates, but his foundation has officially denied these claims multiple times.
RFID technology, which allows tagging animals with very small microchips, does indeed exist. However, RFID is mostly used to transmit data contactlessly, for example, in car keys or door cards used in offices. The technology has been used commercially for about 50 years.
As explained a few years ago by professor Dr. Juozas Šulskus, Dean of the Faculty of Physics at Vilnius University (VU), controlling humans with microchips is a myth from the realm of science fiction.
“Statements about controlling the human brain are complete nonsense. Scientists are currently conducting experiments controlling mice. Very thin wires can be implanted into certain brain areas to direct impulses to those areas.
If someone wanted to implant similar wires into a human, it would be impossible because the human brain has over 100 million neurons – more than hairs on the head. That many wires would need to be inserted into the brain. Talk about controlling humans is meaningless,” the professor concluded.
The expert states that there is nothing mysterious about how 5G works – it operates like a regular radio communication network where two devices transmit data to each other.
What does 6G technology promise?
Although conspiracy theorists portray 6G connectivity in dark colors, technology experts see it not as a mystical breakthrough but as a consistent evolutionary step. Ramūnas Mikalauskas, head of the radio network at “Telia Lietuva,” emphasizes that 6G will simply open new possibilities for fast and efficient data transmission using higher frequencies and more extensively utilized resources. According to him, speeds themselves will not increase massively, but the internet will become as accessible everywhere and as unnoticed as the air we breathe.
One of the frequently mentioned directions for 6G development is robotization and autonomous driving. Self-driving cars that eliminate traffic jams and instant health diagnostics at home are just a few examples that will become easier to implement due to these new studies. Potential benefits are also very broad, including advances in healthcare related to remote diagnostics and surgery, virtual classrooms, and even virtual vacation tourism, the expert says.
According to R. Mikalauskas, the main way ordinary users will be able to appreciate the benefits of 6G is by exploiting the possibilities offered by the merging of physical and virtual worlds. One of the best examples is the vision of a holographic society, where high-performance and ubiquitous internet allows physically being in one environment and transporting to another.
“For example, while dining in a restaurant, you will be able to see a three-dimensional image of a friend or relative sitting at your table from thousands of kilometers away, who will talk and interact with you as if physically present.
This will also be applied in the professional world, where during a job interview you will be able to visit offices of companies on three different continents in one day or call a technician to your home within minutes who will show how to fix a household appliance malfunction,” R. Mikalauskas shares his visions.
15min verdict: lacks context. D. Trump did indeed sign a memorandum on 6G leadership, which mentions implantable technologies as a possible example of innovations. However, claims about an order to control people through brain chips or nanotechnology are unfounded conspiracy theories.
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