In Klamath Falls, Oregon, rumors of an antifa invasion spread quickly, spurring people to take guns to the streets. Instead of antifa, they only found the town's Black Lives Matter protest.
NBC News reviewed similar warnings and posts of panic in local apps like Nextdoor and Facebook groups from all throughout the country this week."Friends in the NYPD" warned of antifa"being sent to the suburbs" in one post. A post in a Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Facebook group implored residents to"protect yourselves, your family and your businesses" from a"serious rumor" about a group"organizing to riot and loot.
That night, hundreds gathered at the Coos County Courthouse with guns, awaiting arrival of the antifa buses, theThe morning after the non-riot, a local couple, Douglas and Debra Bankler, published an op-ed in the Western World, saying"there's not a whole lot worth ‘looting,’ and ‘burning down’ in Coquille — and we mean that in a good way!"Douglas Bankler told NBC News the antifa bus rumor may have started on Facebook, but spread through the town like a real-life game of telephone.
The armed man who livestreamed the protest, who was worried about antifa coming to murder white people, posted an update to his Facebook page acknowledging the risks had been overblown."I know your hearts and minds were in the right place," he wrote,"but a lot of the info was bad." Kline’s post received thousands of likes and shares and was posted in other local Facebook groups from Macomb County in Michigan to Sandpoint, Idaho, according to Facebook’s social media analysis tool, CrowdTangle.
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