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On 28 August 2017, the fake antifa Twitter account @CambridgeAntifa posted a meme purportedly quoting House Speaker Paul Ryan as endorsing the anti-fascist group. The quote gained a wider audience the following day when actor James Woods shared it with his 800,000 followers: The quote isn't real. Ryan has become somewhat of an enemy in alt-right circles, in part because he contradicted President Trump's assertion after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville left a woman dead that there had been violence on many sides. Ryan denounced this sentiment: Ryan's statement meant war for some of President Trump's supporters, who started to paint the House Speaker as an antifa supporter: Ryan has not voiced support for antifa. We found no record of the quote included in this meme and Ryan's press secretary, Ashlee Strong, confirmed that it was fake. @CambridgeAntifa is not associated with an official antifa group. Dozens of fake antifa Twitter accounts have been created in recent months in an attempt to discredit the anti-fascist organization. AntifaChecker, a web site dedicated to rooting out fake antifa accounts, said that Cambridge Antifa is indeed 100% fake. The meme also includes at least one image that is unrelated to U.S. politics. The top left image featuring a group dressed in black and carrying red flags, was taken in London in 2011.
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