West Coast officials are already fighting wildfires. Now they're fighting misinformation, too.

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West Coast officials are already fighting wildfires. Now they're fighting misinformation, too.
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West Coast officials are fighting a wave of misinformation spread in neighborhood Facebook groups and far-right websites that falsely claim antifa activists are setting the blazes that have resulted in large wildfires.

during a “gender-reveal party,” are some of the reported causes of this year’s wildfires.

in Puyallup, Washington, was an “antifa militant.” The Post Millennial later changed the story to call Acord a “BLM activist.”An article One of the earliest claims of antifa involvement came from Paul Romero, a former Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Oregon, who said in athat Dallas County police had arrested six antifa arsonists. Romero stood by his tweet in a phone interview on Thursday, calling the fires a “coordinated intentional attack,” by antifa but providing no evidence for the claim, saying he heard about the arrests from “sheriff's deputies that have been talking.

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