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2022-06-25 19:10:56 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

While there is, as of mid-day 6/25/22, no official explanation for these specific bricks, the Anti-Defamation League and Snopes explained in 2020 (https://www.adl.org/disinformation-suspicious-piles-bricks, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pallets-of-bricks-protest-sites/) that linking "mysterious" bricks to coordinated violent protest efforts is a false conspiracy theory.

Written by 323A238ED38E815CDF07234A7E558A69
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• summary
• While there is, as of mid-day 6/25/22, no official explanation for these specific bricks, the Anti-Defamation League and Snopes explained in 2020 (https://www.adl.org/disinformation-suspicious-piles-bricks, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pallets-of-bricks-protest-sites/) that linking "mysterious" bricks to coordinated violent protest efforts is a false conspiracy theory.