Breaking: @abcnews journalists @maxwalden_ & @PatsKarvelas have spread misinformation about Australian Proud Boys flying to Europe to fight for Russia. They thought a troll account posting flight take off footage from 2018 was current.
Predictably, American journalists also have spread the misinformation that Proud Boys are traveling to eastern Europe to join the war. Among them, NYT tech reporter @sheeraf, Guardian writer @vanbadham & MSNBC contributor @malcolmnance. #Ukraine
.@nytimes tech reporter @sheeraf tries to substantiate her reporting that Proud Boys may be sending operational assets (fighters) to go to Ukraine based on their Telegram posts. Just read them:
Even now leftists are admitting it was a hoax.
Former CIA intel officer & self-described geopolitics expert @RosaLSmothers is among those who fell for the hoax that Proud Boys are sending an international brigade to personally meet and help Putin.
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