Hi. I’m the Chair of Thurston County Democrats in Olympia, Washington ( @RealTCDems). Over the last 24 hours, we were one of the victims of a nationwide “fake news” trolling operation.

Yesterday, false and forged images were spread nationwide that said, “Get paid to be a professional anarchist.” A fake email address close our real one appeared on the fake flyer, but our real telephone number were used in this forgery.

It was a fascist-style disinformation campaign to discredit protestors nationwide; we were the incidental victims. The Snopes website debunked the flyer as FAKE today, but the sharing of the fraudulent flyer's image is still doing damage right now. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anarchist-recruitment-flyer/

Even though to most eyes, the flyer is clearly fake, @RealTCDems telephone, email, social media were swamped with calls from gullible conspiracy theorists, accusing us of being backed by "George Soros" to pay violent protesters. Fake, anti-semitic twaddle. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/24/george-soros-antisemitism-bomb-attacks