A strange redirection of a URL that will certainly cause confusion: Is the new US government Antifa?
The Antifa movement is a thorn in the side of the right-wing scene in particular.
Antifa supporters like to use this to “troll” by, for example, selling Antifa ID cards or clearly fake Antifa invoices. And this, too, is apparently a case of trolling by someone unknown: The URL antifa. com leads directly to the White House website!
Supporting a terrorist organization?
In mid-2020, then US President Donald Trump wanted to classify Antifa as a left-wing extremist terrorist organization ( see HERE ). Reason: He blamed the movement for violent riots after the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer.
Nothing came of this because Antifa (short for “Antifascism” or “Antifascist Action”, a movement that is directed against fascism and National Socialism) is not a unified organization with a structure, but an ideology that cannot be banned.
Nevertheless, the idea that Antifa could be a terrorist organization remained in people's minds. On Facebook, for example, you cannot post the URL; it is considered spam.
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Who is behind the URL?
As early as August 2020, the Antifa URL was redirected to Joe Biden's presidential campaign. Biden campaign digital director Rob Flaherty denied involvement in the forwarding:
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A check of the URL ( see HERE ) shows that it was registered in April 2002 and the owner is concealing his identity using an anonymization service from Panama.
But Rob Flaherty is right when he writes that the URL was previously registered with an anonymization service in Russia, as a look at the search engine Whoxy shows ( see HERE ):
In the past there have been various redirects to certain pages, for example within the last year to the pages of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, as our colleagues at Snopes documented ( see HERE ).
But it is not known who owns the URL; since registration in 2004, the owner or owners have been anonymized.
Conclusion
In fact, the Antifa URL currently redirects to the White House website. However, this does not mean that the Democratic Party or Biden have a connection to the Antifa movement.
Additional source: Snopes
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