We identify bad actor / fake antifascist accounts and follow verified antifascist accounts.
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Email: [email protected]
Google Form: https://forms.gle/BQCG5q64hGapXSHX9
Twitter: https://twitter.com/antifacheck161
This is a revamped project of the https://twitter.com/AntifaChecker Twitter account that has been inactive for two years: https://twitter.com/AntifaChecker/status/848364179304185856
The purpose of this project is to continue the process of identifying bad actor antifascist Twitter accounts for people to easily block obvious fake/troll accounts. In turn, the project's Twitter account would only follow known and legitimate #antifa accounts with a goal of updating the follow list to include antifascist accounts that have established themselves since the original AntifaChecker's account went dormant.
Project Methodology
- Block known fakes and bad actors
- Follow known, well-established accounts
Account evaluations: Checking the extended social graphs of real and fake accounts we can find new accounts to screen. Every account that is not 100% obvious is placed in a secondary screening list. If we still can’t tell, we take no action.
Current verification methods:
- A known-good antifa account vouches.
- Over xx% of known-good antifa accounts follow. The current threshold is 70% and positives are placed in a secondary screening list, since we don’t have a large enough sample yet.
Updates will be provided to inform about bad actor and fake antifa accounts as they are reported and evaluated.
In addition, we are working on a new shared block list to help people keep up to date more easily.
For any updates or corrections please email us: [email protected]
Visualizing Cyber Harassment - Erin Gallagher - Feb 25, 2021
https://medium.com/swlh/visualizing-cyber-harassment-7c4cad50bc8c
Butterfly Attack: The Origins of Fake Antifa Social Media Accounts - Erin Gallagher - Oct 9, 2020
https://mediamanipulation.org/case-studies/butterfly-attack-origins-fake-antifa-social-media-accounts
AntifaChecker Twitter Block List - blocktogether.org - Jun 1, 2020
https://archive.ph/c0Dhq
A List of 420+ Fake Antifa Accounts on Social Media - Subcomandante X - Aug 19, 2019
https://medium.com/americanodyssey/list-of-fake-antifa-accounts-on-social-media-trolls-1df2e7348d7c
#FakeAntifa and Associates Social Media Accounts - American Odyssey - Aug 6, 2019
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UByF4_lEd3wYKxHi1tPjLK8OftKltERfsPR-bLUhDnI/edit#gid=0
ALT RIGHT BOTS SPREADING MISINFORMATION AND HATEFUL CONTENT ON TWITTER - Dec 25, 2017
https://archive.ph/3R0AD
Conspirator0 Tweet of Fake AFA images - Sep 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/913561149773316096
List of Fake Antifa Accounts on Twitter - Aug 21, 2017
https://archive.ph/joytq
To Troll a Movement: A List of 320+ Fake Antifa Accounts on Social Media - Conspirator0 - Aug 21, 2017
https://web.archive.org/web/20180922093823/https://geomovements.com/list-of-fake-antifa-accounts-on-twitter-f8f8f14c4bf9
OpWolverines 2017 Fake Antifa Spreadsheet - Aug 2017
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X1u0Jg70osnq8zdSNz2QlZwagnrTSOhfgwwyvqpbrRE/htmlview#
Fake Antifa Twitter - Erin Gallagher - July 18, 2017
https://erin-gallagher.medium.com/fake-antifa-twitter-be3a05f4d2ca
Fake Antifa accounts image - @RVAwonk - Caroline Orr - Apr 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/857011182988873728