Misinformation About George Floyd Protests Surges on Social Media | The New York Times

On Twitter and Facebook, hundreds of posts are circulating saying that George Floyd is not actually dead.

Conspiracy theorists are baselessly arguing that George Soros, the billionaire investor and Democratic donor, is funding the spreading protests against police brutality.

And conservative commentators are asserting with little evidence that antifa, the far-left antifascism activist movement, coordinated the riots and looting that sprang from the protests.

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