There have been multiple efforts to discredit antifa groups via hoaxes on social media, many of them false flag attacks originating from alt-right and 4chan protagonists posing as antifa backers on Twitter.[127][128][129] Some of these hoaxes have been picked up and reported as fact by right-leaning media.[129][130][131]
As well as by certain childishly credulous posters here as well.
These include an August 2017 "#PunchWhiteWomen" photo hoax campaign spread by fake antifa Twitter accounts.[132][133] In one such instance, Bellingcat researcher Eliot Higgins discovered an image of British actress Anna Friel portraying a battered woman in a 2007 Women's Aid anti-domestic violence campaign that had been re-purposed using fake antifa Twitter accounts organized by way of 4chan. The image is captioned "53% of white women voted for Trump, 53% of white women should look like this" and includes an antifa flag. Another image featuring an injured woman is captioned "She chose to be a Nazi.
Choices have consequences" and includes the hashtag #PunchANazi. Higgins remarked to the BBC that "[t]his was a transparent and quite pathetic attempt, but I wouldn't be surprised if white nationalist groups try to mount more sophisticated attacks in the future".[127] A similar fake image circulated on social media after the Unite the Right rally; the doctored image, actually from a 2009 riot in Athens, was altered to make it look like someone wearing an antifa symbol attacking a policeman with a flag.[134]
After the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, similar hoaxes falsely claimed that the shooter was an antifa "member"; another such hoax involved a fake antifa Twitter account praising the shooting.[135][136] Another high-profile fake antifa account was banned from Twitter after it posted with a geotag originating in Russia.[128]
Such fake antifa accounts have been repeatedly reported on as real by right-leaning media outlets.[129][131] On May 31, 2020, a newly created Twitter account, @ANTIFA_US, attempted to incite violence relating to the nationwide George Floyd protests against police brutality and racism.
The next day, after determining that it was linked to the white nationalist group Identity Evropa, Twitter suspended the fake account.[137]
Some of the opposition to antifa activism has also been artificial in nature. Nafeesa Syeed of Bloomberg reported that "[t]he most-tweeted link in the Russian-linked network followed by the researchers was a petition to declare Antifa a terrorist group".[138]
Some of you alt-right, alt-reality, mfr's will fall for and promulgate shit that wouldn't fool a child of average intelligence.
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