The GOP's claim that antifa is infiltrating George Floyd protests is a right-wing 'bogeyman' that bears all the hallmarks of a domestic disinformation campaign
Out of 873,000 pieces of misinformation linked to the demonstrations, 575,800 mentioned antifa, Zignal LabsThe allegations gained traction after Trump tweeted on May 31 that antifa and other left-wing radicals were responsible for the violence. But they started bouncing around social media days earlier, according to The Times, which found more than 6,000 Facebook posts linking antifa to the protests that garnered 1.3 million likes and shares from May 25 to June 1.
It turned out the warnings were an online hoax. Indeed, local officials in the state confirmed to the Post that not a single participant in the rallies was known to have defaced homes or storefronts in the name of antifa.described a similar scenario in Klamath Falls, Oregon, where a group of about 200 protesters gathered at a local hotspot and were met with hundreds of their mostly white neighbors across the street, who were armed with guns, hammers, axes, baseball bats, and American flags.
The regression is similar to "what you see in autocracies like Russia, where Trump's friend Vladimir Putin has so debased the notion of truth that many Russians have given up on trying to discern it," Barrett said. Barr's news conference on Thursday also came one day after the Justice Department announced charges against the three Nevada men who self-identified as being part of the Boogaloo movement. When the attorney general was asked why he singled out antifa but not the Boogaloo arrests, Barr replied that he had acknowledged "actors of a variety of different political persuasions" in his opening statement.
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