Current Events > Twitter suspends fake antifa account tied to Identity Evropa

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https://www.axios.com/twitter-suspends-fake-antifa-account-tied-to-white-nationalists-b387f109-2bfd-4326-a60f-a4d398a191c3.html

Twitter said Monday that it has suspended an account named "ANTIFA_US" which it says was tied to the white nationalist group Identity Evropa. Over the weekend, the account had called for violence and its posts had widely circulated online.

Why it matters: It's the latest example of social media being used to exploit and sharpen the very real divisions in American society. It's also the latest example of Twitter more aggressively rooting out false information on its platform.

"This account violated our platform manipulation and spam policy, specifically the creation of fake accounts," a Twitter representative told Axios. "We took action after the account sent a Tweet inciting violence and broke the Twitter Rules."

Twitter has previously taken action on other fake accounts linked to the Identity Evropa group, including ones engaged in targeted hate focused on race, religion and sexual orientation.

Context: As protests about the death of George Floyd spread nationwide over the past week, President Trump and his allies began charging, without evidence, that antifa a label for a variety of far-left anti-fascist groups and activists were responsible for the unrest.

On Sunday, Attorney General Bill Barr said the Justice Department and FBI would treat antifa protesters as domestic terrorists.

The big picture: Twitter has become more active in holding to account those promoting violence on its platform.

Last week, the service flagged a tweet from President Trump for violating the company's rules against glorifying violence.
On Monday, it did the same with a separate tweet from U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz.
President Trump, in response to his tweet being labeled, issued an executive order that aims to limit the protections afforded to social media.

Facebook, by contrast, has refused to label or remove any of Trump's posts, sparking a significant amount of dissent internally. That culminated in an employee walkout Monday, during which a reported several hundred Facebook employees stepped away from their desks and posted messages calling on the company to take action.

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wow
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awesome


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I have no idea what to believe anymore.

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Good.

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They literally dont care. I saw a ton of right wingers sharing that fake page, and none of them have walked their statements back.

Hell, Trumps son shared it.

They also dont care about gassing peaceful protesters for a photo op.

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On the bright side I did see people calling out the account as likely fake/corrupted before Twitter actually took action, so at least people knew.
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It's funny...white folks gather to buck public safety measures meant to stem a pandemic to demand working class and service people return to work so that they may be given back some of their creature comforts.

Now even though black people would largely be the ones to have to shoulder the risk of a prematurely reopened economy, despite being the group of Americans hardest hit by the pandemic, many of our reaction, even though we fundamentally disagreed, was to simply observe and comment/opine from a distance

So why is SO many white peoples reaction to seeing a people genuinely hurt, NOT taking marching orders from Fox News, conservative pundits and businessmen who have a financial motive to reopen in regards to the pandemic, but birthing a movement out real hurt, anger and a hunger for reform, to sow descent, delegitimize and turn the country against us? What is the motive to take it beyond simple disagreement?

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Just like cops in nyc bring it pallets of bricks

Or the white nationalists the FBI found all over Minneapolis causing riots

Identity Evropa needs to be hunted down and rounded up.

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The Boogaloo movement, members of which are often referred to as Boogaloo boys or Boogaloo bois, is a loosely organized American far-right extremist movement. Members of the boogaloo movement say they are preparing for a coming second American Civil War, which they call the "boogaloo".

Just like these guys actively causing mayhem and destroying things to get antifa blamed

How dare Twitter assault their Freezedom of Peach.

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What is a fake antifa account as opposed to a real antifa account?

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atifa has no structure or leadership it is an idealogy thats why these alt right groups can infiltrate and pretend so easily we are living in Trumps racist dystopia

Not surprising. Most terrible things that happen int he US is because of the right.

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Megaman50100 posted...

What is a fake antifa account as opposed to a real antifa account?

There isn't one.

Same with Anonymous, that account that's been circulating isn't real either.
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Solar_Crimson posted...

Identity Evropa needs to be hunted down and rounded up.

Identity Evropa no longer exists.

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Incorrect, they just tried to rebrand themselves in an attempt to assuage the overt white supremacism
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White supremacist are funny.

So the plan is to kill every minority or kick them out of the U.S. and then what?

Everyone is so interconnected now that if you throw out all minorities out of the country you eliminate doctors, electricians, grocery stores, food supply, construction workers, soldiers, scientists, etc.

Then the U.S. looks weak to the rest of the world that countries like China will just go to war with the U.S. and probably just divide up our land just to get more resources for their growing population.

burns112233 posted...

White supremacist are funny.

So the plan is to kill every minority or kick them out of the U.S. and then what?

Everyone is so interconnected now that if you throw out all minorities out of the country you eliminate doctors, electricians, grocery stores, food supply, construction workers, soldiers, scientists, etc.

Then the U.S. looks weak to the rest of the world that countries like China will just go to war with the U.S. and probably just divide up our land just to get more resources for their growing population.

It's almost like the media is lying or something.

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Bio1590 posted...

Incorrect, they just tried to rebrand themselves in an attempt to assuage the overt white supremacism

This. Basically, Identity Evrope still exists and its members still need to be treated with prejudice.

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I was gonna reply to post 19 but that account is already Suspended lmao
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