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Key takeaways
- Antifa warning labels have been appearing on Threads and Reddit.
- These labels aren't real, and are added by the user.
- The goal is to mock Trump designating Antifa as terrorists.
If you've browsed social media over the past few days, especially Threads and Reddit, you might have noticed an ominous message apparently identifying a poster as part of a terrorist organization.
In italics below the content of a post, you might see a warning label seemingly added after the fact that says: "This user is suspected to be a part of a terrorist organization called Antifa. Please report any suspicious behavior."
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The label looks somewhat similar to Meta's community notes feature, so it's not a completely strange idea that a social media site might add context to a post. You can see archived examples here .
So what's going on? Are Threads and Reddit really identifying and labeling users? Do you need to be wary of these posts?
Are the Antifa warning labels real?
The most important thing to know is that these warnings aren't real.
The text is being added by the users themselves on everything from posts to memes to recipes, and it's formatted to look different. Users are adding the tag to protest (or mock) President Donald J. Trump identifying Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.
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While Trump can, in theory, make that proclamation, Antifa is more of a political ideology than an actual group or organization, and there's no official US designation for "domestic terrorist organization."
Think twice and fact check
A quick check of the Meta newsroom (Meta owns Facebook, Instagram, and Threads) and the Reddit news releases page shows no announcement about warning labels.
I reached out to both Meta and Reddit, and both confirmed the labels are coming from the user.
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Since the tags have started to appear, some satire pages have shared posts indicating that the labels are real, causing concern and anger from users. This serves as a reminder to think twice about what you're seeing and do a little fact-checking of your own.
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