Why didn’t big tech shut down Antifa communications through facebook and Twitter when they were laying violent siege to the police and federal court houses in Portland and Seattle?
Were they organizing on Facebook and twitter?
I did come across this:
PolitiFact - Suspended Twitter account fans misinformation about antifa, George Floyd protests
What we do know is that there is no national organization for antifa, which means there is no official Twitter account for the movement. And there were no reports we could find of antifa or other groups specifically targeting white residentials.......
But as of now, there is no proof that antifa activists are the primary demonstrators stoking violence at Black Lives Matter protesters across the country. Neither Trump nor Barr
have offered public evidence that the leftist movement is behind the demonstrations. And while they are probably part of the protests, experts say it’s unlikely that antifa groups are culpable for a significant portion of damage.
"I haven’t seen any instances in these demonstrations of groups marching behind a banner saying, ‘Hey, we are antifa,’" said Mark Bray, a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University and author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook." "That said, I think there's a fair likelihood that some antifa groups have participated in the protests that we've seen."
A Twitter account that tweeted a call to violence and claimed to be representing the position of
"Antifa" 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 inciting violence and broke the Twitter Rules."
Although the account only had a few hundred followers, it is an example of white supremacists seeking to inflame tensions in the United States by posing as left-wing activists online.
And as to violence this last summer:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/22/who-caused-violence-protests-its-not-antifa/
Antifa is a moniker, not a single group with a clear organizational structure or leader. It is a decentralized network of activists who don’t coordinate. Their common ground is opposing anything that they think is racist or fascist. In recent years, antifa activists appeared whenever there was a large gathering of white nationalists......
Roughly 80 federal charges, including murder and throwing molotov cocktails at police vehicles, reveal no evidence of an antifa plot.
Four people who identify with the far-right extremist “boogaloo” movement are among those facing the most serious federal charges.....
An intelligence bulletin issued by the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism Center that was
obtained by ABC News warned that “anarchist extremists continue to pose the most significant threat of targeted assaults against police.” The bulletin, which was distributed to police departments nationwide, mentions antifa only in a footnote differentiating those who self-identify with the group from anarchists.
Rather, the bulletin said that “the greatest threat of lethal violence continues to emanate from lone offenders with racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist ideologies and [domestic violent extremists] with personalized ideologies,” specifically pointing to
boogaloo-related groups as likely to be “instigating violence” at the protests.
It obviously become a huge problem with the conspiracy theories and organization by right wing groups when the Capitol was stormed, and there was a chant to "Hang Mike Penis" and there were plans to assassinate Pelosi.
Proud Boys intended to kill Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi, FBI witness says
An
FBI witness says that members of the far-right
Proud Boys had hoped to assassinate Vice President
Mike Pence and Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi during last week's violent storming of the U.S. Capitol.
An FBI special agent made the claim in an affidavit as part of a criminal complaint against 43-year-old Dominic Pezzola, who is accused of taking part in the riot in support of President
Donald Trump's false claims that the presidential election was "stolen." Pezzola, who is also known as "Spaz," allegedly used a shield taken from a Capitol Police officer to smash a Capitol window before entering the building. An FBI witness said that the group Pezzola was with had discussed committing violent acts that went far beyond property damage.
In the aftermath of the January 6 assault on the US Capitol by a mob of pro-Trump insurrectionists, a Twitter video posted on January 10 caught the eye of social media sleuths trying to identify the perpetrators of the assault. In it, a line of men equipped with combat helmets, bullet-proof vests, and radios move steadily up the Capitol steps amid cheering protesters. They are members of the Oath Keepers — one of the largest radical anti-government militia groups in the US readying themselves for a civil war.
