FBI Director Chris Wray said of antifa that, “It’s not a group or an organization. It’s a movement or an ideology.”
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Snopes→ FBI Director Says Antifa Is an Ideology, Not an Organization
FBI Director Chris Wray told lawmakers that antifa is an ideology, not an organization, delivering testimony that puts him at odds with President Donald Trump, who has said he would designate it a terror group.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: McDonald’s Did NOT Remove American Flags In Support Of Antifa And BLM
Did McDonald's remove American flags in support of Antifa and Black Lives Matter? No, that's not true: The fast food company denied the claim in a statement to Lead Stories. The claim appeared as a post (archived here) published by Facebo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Antifa Is NOT Calling For Election Rioting By Members Dressed As Trump Supporters — It’s An Old Post That Was Shared As Satire. And It Gets The Election Date Wrong
Is Antifa recruiting "comrades" to dress as President Trump supporters and police to riot on Election Day and fool people into thinking it was supporters of Trump who caused the mayhem? No, the online meme making the claim was posted by a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Antifa Did NOT Admit to Igniting Fires All Over The Country To Draw Attention To Climate Change
Did Antifa admit to igniting fires all over the country to draw attention to climate change? No, that's not true: The Twitter account behind the claim has been permanently suspended for violating the platform's manipulation and spam polic
Truth or Fiction?→ Trump Campaign ‘Antifa Alert’ Diamond Club Text Message
On September 12 2020, a screenshot of a purported Trump campaign text message began circulating — warning recipients that antifa might “attack” their homes and urging them to become a “Diamond Club Member”: Tonight in T
AFP Fact Check→ False claims of Antifa arson arrests spread online as fires hit Oregon
Social media posts claim members of Antifa, the far-left movement, have been arrested for setting fires in Oregon, a state on the US West Coast hit by devastating wildfires. This is false; law enforcement officers from areas where the arrests were alle
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Western Wildfires Are NOT Evidence Of A Coordinated Antifa Campaign To ‘Burn The Country Down’
Are wildfires raging on the West Coast evidence of a coordinated campaign by Antifa to "burn the country down"? No, that's not true: Although authorities have reported at least two arrests for arson, they have specifically said the claim
Snopes→ Is ‘Antifa’ Setting Wildfires in Oregon?
Law enforcement pleaded with social media users to stop spreading such hoaxes.
Truth or Fiction?→ Is ‘Antifa’ Setting Fires in Oregon?
On September 10 2020, wildfires raged across western states — as did social media rumors that anti-fascist protesters (or “antifa”) started fires in Oregon (and elsewhere) in a coordinated mass attack. Examples Claims often came fro
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Portland Antifa ‘Anarchist’ Camps — They Are Temporary Outdoor Homeless Shelters
Does a video show a secret Portland Antifa "anarchist" camp where "rioters" are staying as protests rage in the city? No, that's not true. A video that was shot in Portland, Oregon, shows two outdoor homeless camps that were set up by the
Snopes→ Did an Antifa Flyer Tell ‘Comrades’ To Pose as Trump Supporters and Riot After Election Day?
These supposed plans appear to have been circulating online for years.
Washington Post→ Trump retweets video tying BLM, antifa to an assault. Neither group was involved.
A White House official said the president's retweets do not imply endorsement. He earns Four Pinocchios.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: An ‘Antifa’ Website Is NOT Affiliated With The Biden/Harris Campaign
Is the campaign to elect former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris connected to a website belonging to Antifa, or anti-fascists? No, that's not true: The URL antifa.com, a domain name which could have been pu
Snopes→ Did Antifa.com Redirect to Biden’s Official Campaign Website?
If it was a prank, it wouldn't be the first time the politician has been targeted in such a way.
AllSides→ Did Ben Shapiro Create a Fake Antifa Recruitment Site?
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/did-ben-shapiro-create-a-fake-antifa Viral social media posts claim
The Dispatch→ Did Ben Shapiro Create a Fake Antifa Recruitment Site?
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Antifa Protestors Did NOT Burn A Cross In Portland
Did Antifa protesters in Portland, Oregon, burn a cross on August 1, 2020? No, that's not true: A still frame taken from a video of a flag burning was photoshopped to look like a burning cross. This post (archived here) was publi
Snopes→ Did Mugshots Show 13 ‘Antifa Teachers’ Arrested in Portland?
Plenty of outrage, but very little evidence, surrounded a widely shared meme in the summer of 2020.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: No Evidence These People Arrested In Portland In 2017 Are Public School Teachers Or Antifa Or Both
Were 13 public school teachers identifyng themselves as Antifa members arrested in Portland? No, that's not true: This meme making that claim and implying the arrests were recent is using mugshots from 2017. The claim that they a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Antifa Is Starting ‘Red Army;’ ACORN NOT Funding Antifa
Truth or Fiction?→ Does This Image Depict an ‘Antifa Rioter’ Named Brian Who ‘Hit a Woman’ in Front of a ‘Real Man’?
On July 6 2020, Facebook user John Sargent shared the following image, which he claimed showed an “antifa street rioter” named Brian — heavily implying that “Brian’s” injuries were from receiving a righteous beatdow
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Antifa Is NOT Planning A Training Session August 15, 2020 In Garnet, Montana
Is "Antifa" planning a training session August 15, 2020 in Garnet, a historic ghost town in Montana? No, that's not true: The remote 130-acre site east of Missoula, Montana, is managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Cathy Areu Did NOT Pose For A Photo In An Antifa Cap
Did Cathy Areu, a former frequent guest on Fox News who is now a co-plaintiff in a lawsuit against the network, appear in a photograph while wearing an Antifa stocking cap? No, that's not true: An image of her smiling while pointing to a
AFP Fact Check→ FBI did not say most Antifa members work as teachers
Facebook and Instagram posts claim the FBI said people associated with the Antifa movement are most commonly employed as teachers. This is false; the FBI said it has not made any such statements about the occupations of those attracted to political ide
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The FBI Did NOT Say Teachers Are The Number One Occupation Of Antifa Activists
Did the FBI report teachers are the number one occupation of Antifa activists? No, that's not true: The FBI responded to Lead Stories' inquiry by saying it does not categorize by occuptation the adherents of any ideology. The FBI website's lis
AllSides→ Does This Photo Show a New Antifa Flag Resembling a Nazi Flag?
https://checkyourfact.com/2020/07/03/fact-check-photo-antifa-flag-resembling-nazi-flag/ An image shared
AFP Fact Check→ Antifa July 4th plot unproven, say police
Claims of a plot by Antifa to attack white suburbs and the Gettysburg National Cemetery have proliferated on Facebook ahead of US Independence Day. Police, however, said they had no evidence that plans for such an attack exist, and a local official sai
Truth or Fiction?→ Is Antifa Renting U-Hauls to Infiltrate ‘Residential Neighborhoods’?
A June 27 2020 post by user Cindy Kowalczyk was shared thousands of times, claiming (without citations or sources) that “Antifa plans residential Neighborhood attacks” using U-Haul moving trucks: The Rumor and Earlier Iterations In the
Snopes→ Rumors Swirl About Antifa, Gettysburg, and July Fourth … Again
Rumors about antifa plotting violence have coincided with the month of July and Gettysburg before.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Antifa Did NOT Attack ‘Short Bus for Mentally Disabled Kids’
Did anti-fascist activists linked to the Black Lives Matter movement attack and smash the windows of a bus for "mentally disabled kids?" No, that's not true: The video shows left-wing protesters chasing and hitting a bus carrying right-wing ac
Snopes→ Does a Pic Show Antifa in Seattle Protest Zone?
A years-old photograph from a bondage festival in San Francisco was misappropriated.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Marine Did NOT Capture An Antifa Member
Did a U.S. Marine capture an Antifa member? No, that's not true: The photo used with that claim in a Facebook post was taken in Fallujah in 2004 during the Iraq War. The man being held by the Marine was not a member of Antifa. The claim appare
Snopes→ Mississippi Mayor: ANTIFA Not Coming, COVID-19 Not a Hoax
Tupelo Mayor Jason Shelton, a Democrat, said he was addressing “specific allegations I have received either by phone, email, or social media.”
Snopes→ No, Antifa and Muslim Groups Aren’t Policing Minneapolis Under ‘Muslim Rule’
The claim appears to have originated with a state representative who does not live in Minneapolis.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Peaceful Flag Burning to Resist Police Sponsored by Antifa’
A group with content seemingly designed to anger right-wing readers attracted attention from actual government officials — before finally being removed from both Twitter and Facebook in June 2020. The group, “Left Behind USA,” was us
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Message From Louisiana Law Enforcement Officers Is NOT To ANTIFA
Did Louisiana law enforcement officers record a video message to ANTIFA? No, that's not true: This 2016 video from St. Landry Parish Sheriff Captain Clay Higgins was a message directed to seven members of the Gremlin Street Gang, not ANTIFA. T
Truth or Fiction?→ Were Four Busloads of Protesters (or ‘Antifa’) in Ada, Oklahoma Met by ‘600 Armed Americans,’ — and the News Won’t Report It?
On June 18 2020, Facebook user Eric Wicklund shared the following post, claiming (in yet another warmed-over variation on very well-worn scarelore) that “four busloads” of protesters planned to descend on Ada, Oklahoma — but their ne
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Is NOT Of ‘Brian’ And He Is NOT An Antifa Street Rioter
Does the photo of a badly battered face circulating on social media belong to an Antifa member named Brian who got beaten up for hitting a woman? No, that's not true. The photo is of a young man attacked in 2015 in what police said was an assa
Washington Post→ Who caused the violence at protests? It wasn’t antifa.
The president and administration officials have consistently labeled antifa as perpetrators of violence at the protests since George Floyd's killing, but little evidence supports this claim.