The Associated Press checks out some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. This one is bogus, even though it was shared widely on social media. Here are the facts:

CLAIM: An antifa flier is circulating, calling on people to disguise themselves as Patriot Trump supporters during riots on Nov. 4.

THE FACTS: A meme of the flier has been circulating online since at least 2017. Theres no evidence that the meme is connected to antifa groups.

The fabricated flier states: Antifa comrades! On Nov. 4, dont forget to disguise yourselves as patriots/Trump supporters: wear MAGA hats, USA flags, 3%er insignias, a convincing police uniform is even better! This way police and patriots responding to us wont know who their enemies are and onlookers and the media will think there are Trump supporters rioting so its hard to turn popular opinion against us!

In 2017, there was a hoax that antifa would launch a civil war to overthrow the Trump administration on Nov. 4. Multiple memes and fabricated images circulated online, including this flier.

Antifa is not a single organization but rather an umbrella term for far-left-leaning militant groups that confront or resist neo-Nazis and white supremacists at demonstrations.

There is no hierarchical structure to antifa or universal set of tactics that makes its presence immediately recognizable, though members tend to espouse revolutionary and anti-authoritarian views, said Mark Bray, a historian at Rutgers University and author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.

This week, similar false claims surfaced. One tweet posted on Oct. 11 said: BREAKING REPORT: A flyer circulating the internet indicates ANTIFA members are recruiting others to DISGUISE THEMSELVES as Patriot Trump Supporters on November 4th... to cause confusion during RIOTSSTAY VIGILANT

The false post had over 10,000 retweets. In general terms, in right-wing circles, I havent seen any concerted efforts to try to understand what antifa or anti-facism are. The focus has been exclusively on using the specter of antifa as the boogeyman, Bray said.

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