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  • 2018-08-13 (xsd:date)
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  • Does This Video Show Six Antifa Members Beating Up a Person During an August 2018 Rally? (en)
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  • A year-old video purportedly showing six Antifa members beating up an individual resurfaced in August 2018, thanks in part to its inclusion in a Fox News article headlined Antifa's violent confrontations with police, journalists mar otherwise peaceful rally counterprotesters. Fox crowd-sourced several videos from social media supposedly showing violent confrontations that took place in Washington, D.C., and Virginia around the 12 August 2018 Unite the Right 2 rally. Although some of the included tweets originated with reporters at news outlets such as NBC News, NPR, and a local ABC affiliate, Fox also included a video posted by the Blair B*tch Project. The video in question was preceded by a sentence stating that it was unclear where the video was shot or who was involved in the altercation: Fox News later removed that video from their article and added a note explaining that it was actually shot in 2017, not at an August 2018 event: EDITOR'S NOTE: A previous tweet included in this report was posted in 2017. The above-displayed screenshot was taken by Mother Jones editor Mark Follman, and it documents that the Fox article originally linked a video taken by Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer during a similar protest in August 2017: A number of outlets used this sensational piece of footage back in August 2017 for articles concerning reported moments of violence occurring between members of the alt-right and counter-protesters who opposed them in Berkeley. NBC's Joe Scarborough even retweeted a version of the video which was accompanied by an inaccurate caption: This footage was not taken in Washington D.C. in August 2018, nor does it capture a bystander getting jumped by Antifascists while leaving a grocery store. This video was shot in Berkeley during an alt-right rally in August 2017 and, according to Bauer, records a group of antifa protesters beating a right-wing activist. Bauer wrote an article in the aftermath of the Berkeley protests asserting that the news media were missing the big picture by focusing on sensational moments such as the one depicted in the viral video: (en)
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