American truckers attract thousands on social media for planned convoy protest to Washington DC
Highlights
- Facebook group called Convoy to DC 2022 quickly gained more than 100,000 members and announced a convoy next month.
- Facebook group was recently removed for violating QAnon policies.
- Organizers deny affiliation to the conspiracy movement and deny any affiliation to them.
- The group has moved to Telegram, where more than 28,000 have joined.
- In Canada trucker protests have been linked to the far right and caused days of disruption in the capital, Ottawa, as well as in a border town in Alberta.
- The far right uses big public events like this to normalize their presence as an opportunity to recruit new members, human rights groups are concerned about the planned protest.