Misinformation spreads about Russia connection to antifa.com

There is zero proof that Russia owns the domain name antifa.com, but that isn’t stopping people from spreading exactly that rumor online. Yesterday, Trump supporters were up in arms over the discovery that antifa.com forwarded visitors to Joe Biden’s campaign website. Conservatives argued that the redirect somehow proved some sort of official connection between the anti-fascist movement and the Democratic Party. We thoroughly debunked those claims. We simply do not know who owns the antifa.com domain. It could be a Biden supporter, a pro-Trump group, someone completely apolitical... It could be anyone! The registrant of the domain uses WhoisGuard, a privacy service which obscures the personal details connected to every domain name. Read more...More about Russia, Joe Biden, Antifa, Tech, and Web Culture