Fake news flyer targets Thurston County political organization

A flyer posted on Social Media saying “Get Paid to be a Professional Anarchist,” which included contact information for the Thurston County Democrats, began circulating on Facebook and Twitter last week as protests in Minneapolis began to spread throughout the country.

The flyer, which has not been seen in Olympia or elsewhere in Thurston County, promises to pay $200 to those who join, and features the Banksy artwork “Love is in the air,” along with several anarchist and Antifa symbols.

Chairman of the Thurston County Democrats, Victor Minjares. took to Twitter to inform people of the post. “Over the last 24 hours, we were one of the victims of a nationwide ‘fake news’ trolling operation,” he wrote.

He continued, adding that the post was determined to be fake by the fact-checking website Snopes.com, writing on twitter, “It was a fascist-style disinformation campaign to discredit protesters nationwide; we were the incidental victims.”

While the email address on the flyer was fake, the phone number listed was the Thurston County Democrats’ real number. Over the last few days their phone was “swamped with calls from gullible conspiracy theorists, accusing us of being backed by George Soros [a billionaire political donor],” Minjares wrote on Twitter.

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