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They also contributed to the confusion about what exactly happened on the street, which was depicted in digital and social media by grimly different ideological lenses. Many posts created the false impression that the entire city had been flooded in violence, when the collisions were limited to only a small part.

There were countless scenes of demonstrators who threw stones or other objects at law enforcement officers and set cars on fire, including Some self-driving Waymo-Taxis. At the same time, false images spread to breathe new life into old conspiracies that the protests were a planned provocation, no spontaneous response to immigration raids.

The confrontation escalated on Monday when new protests took place and Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth announced – on X – that he mobilized 700 Marines from a base near Los Angeles to monitor federal buildings. They are expected to join 2,000 members of the National Guard of California that Mr Trump has deployed without the authorization of the State Governor, Gavin Newsom, who Normally the command has of the troops.

The latest implementations led to a new wave of misleading images to spread – some claim to show Marines and the weapons of the military service in action. One was still of ‘Blue thunder‘An action thriller from 1983 about a conspiracy to deprive residents of Los Angeles from their civil rights. It has a climate dog fight over the city center of the city.

Darren L. Linvill, a researcher at the Medicensics Hub of Clemson University, said that Conservatives Online “built up the riots in a performative way” to help Mr. Trump’s claims that Los Angeles had been taken over by “violent, op -curectionist mobs.”

Dr. Linvill said the posts were also ‘a little self -fulfilling’. “While they focus on it,” he said, “more demonstrators will appear.”

James Woods, the actor who became known for spreading conspiracy theories, used his account on X to tension against the chosen officials of the State, in particular Mr. Newsom, a Democrat. He also placed a manufactured quote, attributed to former President Barack Obama, in which he discussed a secret conspiracy to impose socialism on the country, as well as a video of burning police cars that was from 2020.

A harmless photo of a pallet with bricks, which was actually posted on the website of a wholesaler in the building materials in Malaysia, was cited as proof that the protests were organized by non -profit organizations supported by George Soros, the financier who, who has become feverish consecutive law, a mastermind of the worldwide of the worldwide of the worldwide of the worldwide of the world.

“It’s a civil war !!” An account on X wrote on Saturday and claimed that the stones were placed near the offices of immigration and customs enforcement for ‘democratic militants’.

X placed a community bill and pointed out that the photo had nothing to do with the protests, but it was still seen more than 800,000 times. It was also posted on a large scale, also by various seemingly non -authentic accounts in Chinese.

The Online Trope in any case, dates to the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. IT re -appeared In 2022 after a conspiracy post from representative Lauren Boebert, a Republican in Colorado who suggested that bricks were intended for a paving project near Capitol Hill for violent protests after the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade had destroyed.

“Nowadays it feels like there is a protest every time there is a protest, the Hoax of Old Clickbaity ‘Pallets van Bakstenen’ appears,” wrote the Social Media Lab, a research center at Toronto Metropolitan University, on Bluesky. “You know that those, photos or videos of bricks are supposedly omitted to encourage riots. It is catnip for right -wing agitators and grifters.”

It also fits in with the story that protests against government policy are in one way or another not authentic. On his own platform, Truth Social, Mr. Trump also suggested that the demonstrators were “rebellion rectionists!”

Countless posts did not repeat -supported claims that the protests were the work of Mr. Soros and local non -governmental organizations or democratic officials, including the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass. Some posts that settle the protests were shared by accounts with misleading handles that were strongly similar to those of official government sources or news organizations.

Mike Benz, a Conspiracy -oriented influencer On X who claimed last year that the Pentagon used the Popster Taylor Swift as part of a psychological operation to Mr. Trump to undercut, a bizarre theory of the mayor had that the mayor had ties with the Central Intelligence Agency and had helped starting riots in the city where she lives.

He simply based that on the role of Mrs. Bass as a board member for the National Endowment for Democracy, the congress imposed organization that was established during the Reagan government to promote democratic governance around the world.

It may not be surprising that the theme was reflected by accounts on social media linked to Russia, which often strengthens content that the United States discredits. The Kremlin and his supporters have long accused Mr Soros or the government of the United States of the secret sponsors of “color revolutions” to overthrow governments – from the Arab countries of spring, wiped by Mass Street protests to Ukraine in 2011.

“It is national conspiracy of liberals against not only Trump, but also against the American people in general,” wrote Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent nationalist in Russia, Sunday on X.

Disinformation in such situations spreads so quickly and broadly that the efforts to verify facts do not keep track of, said Nora Benavidez, senior counsel at Free Press, a representation of interests who study the intersection of media, technology and law. She described it as part of “a much longer effort to delegate peaceful resistance movements.”

“Information warfare is always a symptom of conflicts, often fired by those who are in power to feed their own illegal goals,” she said. “It confuses the audience, scares people who otherwise might have empathy for the cause and distributing when we need the most solidarity.”