Revealed: how California police chased a nonexistent ‘antifa bus’

Authorities in rural northern counties spread misinformation and launched aircraft surveillance in response to false rumors about antifa infiltrators', according to records obtained by the Guardian

On 1 June 2020, a law enforcement official in the small northern California city of Redding sent screenshots of two social media posts to her staff, asking them to investigate.

One was an Instagram story. BE AWARE ... I have heard, from a reliable source, that ANTIFA buses with close to 200 people (domestic terrorists) are planning to infiltrate Redding and possibly cause distraction and destruction," it read.