“Left-leaning activists are planning a coup.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 2 Nov 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisNeeds context
What PolitiFact found
Many of the individuals featured are involved in activist organizations, but we couldn’t find evidence that they are planning a coup to take over whole cities, rather planning on how to respond to a coup.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 2 November 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 November 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
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