White Supremacists Pose As Antifa Online, Call For Violence
June 2, 2020
3:07 pm
A Twitter account that tweeted a call to violence and claimed to be representing the position ofย “Antifa”ย was in fact created by a known white supremacist group, Twitter said Monday. The company removed the account.
Before it emerged the account was run by white supremacists, Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump’s son, pointed his 2.8 million Instagram followers to the account as an example how dangerous Antifa is.
“This account violated our platform manipulation and spam policy, specifically the creation of fake accounts,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement. “We took action after the account sent a Tweet
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