Pro-Trump Parents Panic Over Hoax Claiming Antifa Will Report Them to Child Protective Services
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Will Sommer
Updated 09.12.19 2:26AM ET / Published 09.11.19 4:47PM ET
Drew Angerer
This week:
No, antifa isn’t coming to steal Trump supporters’ kids.Conservatives steamed over bogus MAGA hat story.Obama’s new house disproves global warming, somehow.
Hoax claiming antifa will take away pro-Trump supporters’ children goes wide
There’s a hot new hoax about left-wing antifascist groups, and it’s blowing up on the right. In this latest round of obviously disproven lies about antifa, conservative parents are scared that the movement’s activists will report them to Child Protective Services to take their children away.
Conservative activist Patrick Howley—the Big League Politics founder who’s now at the pro-Trump Epoch Times—kicked things off earlier this month by citing a graphic from ostensible antifa account “@JoinAntifa” that promised to report Trump supporters with children to social services.
BREAKING: Self-identified ANTIFA operatives are filing false reports on Trump-supporting parents to Child Protective Services, and encouraging others to do the same, knowing CPS is liberal.
Lots of sources say this is happening -- don't let them say this was a joke pic.twitter.com/y1CHkArJMk
— Patrick Howley (@HowleyReporter) September 3, 2019
“Lots of sources say this is happening—don’t let them say this was a joke,” Howley tweeted.
From there, the idea that antifa activists are trying to steal away Trump supporters’ kids earned articles across right-wing blogs in addition to being picked up by Twitter personalities like Jack Posobiec.
“This is sick,” declared adult film star Jenna Jameson.
Despite its popularity on the right, this idea is totally fake. The entire claim is based on the single @JoinAntifa tweet. @JoinAntifa has just 36 followers, and is obviously set up to either troll Trump supporters or help create damaging fake news stories about antifa.
@JoinAntifa’s page features other slick, if obviously ridiculous, graphics—including supposed antifa schemes to report pro-Trump Boy Scout troop leaders as pedophiles and promising to send armed antifa members to polling sites.
As of Wednesday, Twitter had limited the account’s visibility on the site, apparently to stop it from spreading disinformation. |
