Sunday, October 31, 2021

Fact check: Misleading claim about 'antifa member' at Jan. 6 Capitol riot

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/07/29/fact-check-john-sullivan-not-antifa-member-jan-6-capitol-riot/5405679001/

 The claim: A "known antifa member" was paid $70,000 for his video of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot

Court documents show news outlets paid about the listed amount – $90,000 actually – to use Sullivan's footage, which captured the shooting death of protester Ashli Babbitt. But Sullivan is not a "known antifa member" – and antifa activists weren't behind the Capitol insurrection, as the post makes it seem.

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