After the phrase first emerged from 4chan, a site on which trolling is celebrated, Tucker Carlson defended it, characteristically suggesting that the racial division was being fomented by those who understood the troll as a troll.

Source: https://www.pressherald.com/2023/02/27/analysis-scott-adams-and-the-right-wing-insistence-on-white-victimhood/

But her anger at Russia had simmered as Moscow fomented fighting over the past eight years, and she had long switched to speaking Ukrainian in public.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/world/europe/ukraine-teacher-combat.html

Democrats’ hatred for and defunding of cops has fomented much of the crime they now decry.

Source: https://patriotpost.us/articles/94809-sotu-old-man-yells-lies-at-cloud-2023-02-08

The hatred was fomented some years ago by judges and journalists and prosecutors, who used their offices to frame Lula for corruption crimes of which he was innocent.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/lula-riots-congress-brazil-bolsonaro-protests-b2258693.html

Video footage, photos, and messages on social media showed that Williams was a fan of Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist speaker who fomented the “stop the steal” campaign in the weeks leading up to the certification of the 2020 Presidential Election.

Source: https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/prosecutors-mechanicsburg-woman-should-spend-7-years-in-prison-over-capitol-riot/