More right-wing nonsense about Antifa

Huntsville, Alabama police "identified elements of 10 of 13 antifa roles" from a BLM protest on June 3rd.

Their source is… a chart made by Hong Kong protesters. https://t.co/gEhAJE5xmW pic.twitter.com/r0Hq9ad60r

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) June 19, 2020

I decided to do my new column when I heard that a small, remote logging town on the Oregon coast had been panicked about an antifa invasion, with 200 armed men turning out to fight of the invaders. Similar hysteria has hit towns across the country. https://t.co/6X8zLD612P

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) June 18, 2020

Why isn't it a bigger story that Trump and many of his top law enforcement and national security officials continue to wholly *invent* a "domestic terror" threat without offering the slightest justification for the claim? https://t.co/xsiBVp0xvE https://t.co/udxU6FZ25W

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) June 15, 2020

Authorities have arrested a Colorado man who they say held two roofing-company salesmen at gunpoint. They were knocking on doors in shirts with the company logo, but the man told police he thought they were antifa. https://t.co/8TteG5vzp1

— AP West Region (@APWestRegion) June 14, 2020

NEW None of 400 arrested in Washington during George Floyd protests show ties to Antifa or extremist groups, D.C. officials said. By @keithlalexander and @MerylKornfield https://t.co/usAG76mi7E

— Spencer Hsu (@hsu_spencer) June 14, 2020

Oh boy https://t.co/T00NtMpg0U

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 14, 2020

Scant evidence of “antifa” shows how sweeping the protests for racial justice have become https://t.co/G074ZFyyCL

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 13, 2020

Rather than repeating work Daily Beast, AP, and NPR already did showing Billy Barr lied when he blamed the violence on Antifa, maybe it's time to report on WHY Barr lied about the culprits?

Why would an authoritarian AG frame those opposed to right wing authoritarianism?

🤔 https://t.co/MOnIWaauji

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 13, 2020

New York Times: "None of those charged with serious federal crimes amid the unrest have been linked so far to the loose collective of anti-fascist activists known as antifa." https://t.co/A1oHMjfY12

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 12, 2020

If you've been getting your news from right-wing media, you probably think armed militant Antifa activists have seized a section of Seattle.

But the mayor's office tells me, "City officials have not interacted with 'armed antifa militants' at this site."https://t.co/ctZiwNNCx6

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 11, 2020

Opinion: Trump’s bluster about "Antifa" and the protests takes another hit https://t.co/wGmJzPy0hx

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 11, 2020

I spent the last week tracking rumors of roaming bandits of Antifa coming to destroy small towns — and talking to experts about how, and why, this is happening (it's not just the president tweeting) https://t.co/A3tFlPAK3H

— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) June 9, 2020

All week, as I was reporting on the antifa panic throughout the country, I kept thinking about the 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds, and the '80s Satanic Panic — residents convinced an invisible enemy was coming to their town, no matter how tiny.https://t.co/lybZJCDbd6

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) June 7, 2020

President Trump branded protesters clashing with police after George Floyd’s death as radical-left thugs. Democrats blamed the far-right. But AP finds most of those arrested last weekend in Minneapolis and D.C. were locals. Few were affiliated with groups. https://t.co/7nzO4DMroJ

— The Associated Press (@AP) June 6, 2020

New from @BrandyZadrozny + me:

Armed residents in small towns all across America, warned by social media and local police, have been gathering to fight off "busloads of antifa," coming to loot their towns.

They never show up.

So what happens next?https://t.co/lybZJCDbd6

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) June 6, 2020

First the Daily Beast and now the AP have looked and looked and looked without finding Antifa behind the protests. https://t.co/hwIFqMKqZmhttps://t.co/9HFzcWN9OT

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 6, 2020

New splash page on Trump campaign site pic.twitter.com/56yxLrGA1X

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 6, 2020

conspiracy theory addled conservatives are destroying this country and social media is the poison swamp they get radicalized in https://t.co/ad1MlUcJqQ

— Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85) June 6, 2020

The day three suspected boogaloo guys were charged with threatening a protest, Barr talked about the threat of "antifa-like" tactics.

The next day, Barr warned about antifa again. An FBI report that day saw no link to antifa in the day's protests in DC.https://t.co/C6fMwG6XJ4

— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 5, 2020

Barr keeps squealing about 'Antifa.' But Antifa is not referenced — not once — in any of the first 22 federal criminal cases from the protests. https://t.co/3EQJT4NMEc

— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) June 5, 2020