What is antifa and its role in police protests? To start, it's not one group. https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/what-is-antifa-and-its-role-in-police-protests-to-start-its-not-one-group/article_3d00288b-e967-5011-859f-5cf6d7d790d7.html

"America's racial fault lines are a perfect opportunity for foreign adversaries looking to sow discord and portray the U.S. in a negative light, according to James Ludes, director of the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina University in Rhode Island.

"This is a real issue and Americans are legitimately upset about it," said Ludes, who studies foreign disinformation tactics. "That's one of the hallmarks of these campaigns. You don't create new issues, you exploit existing issues."

There's a history of this. In 2016, another black man, Philando Castile, was killed by police in a Minneapolis suburb, his death livestreamed on Facebook. Russians used a fake Black Lives Matter page to confuse and stoke anger among the protesters. There were nearly 700,000 followers, but it's not clear how many were real."

"Foreign Adversaries" - CHINA