Guest post by Terry Newsome
A long-running Rose City ANTIFA Facebook Page and many others remain active on the platform even after being designated as a domestic terrorist organization.
Facebook continues to show a clear double standard. It allows ANTIFA-linked pages and users to remain active—even after the White House’s September 22, 2025 Executive Order that designates ANTIFA a “domestic terrorist organization” and directs agencies to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle illegal operations by ANTIFA or anyone claiming to act on its behalf. Facebook ignores the designation while restricting conservatives who document confrontations, acts of violence, and targeted harassment.
ANTIFA cells weaponized Facebook to organize, track ICE, coordinate global activities, and target their adversaries. Conservative pro-ICE supporters have faced coordinated efforts in which ANTIFA-linked users stalked their accounts, posted threats and derogatory comments, and launched mass-reporting campaigns.
Facebook defines mass reporting as an adversarial tactic—coordinated networks working to get content “incorrectly taken down”—and its Inauthentic Behavior rules explicitly prohibit misusing the reporting system to harass, intimidate, or silence people. Yet when Antifa-linked users have flooded videos and posts that document confrontations, Facebook has repeatedly issued penalizing strikes and account restrictions against the people posting that material.
One clear example is Facebook’s long-running tolerance of Rose City ANTIFA, one of the country’s oldest and most active cells. This group has a documented history of violence and doxxing—including members tied to the June 2019 beating of journalist Andy Ngo in Portland, for which some individuals were later ordered to pay damages in civil court—and has targeted law enforcement.
In August 2026, the State Department and Treasury designated the Italy-based Autistici/Inventati network as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist for supplying encrypted tools, hosting, and other digital infrastructure used by Rose City ANTIFA and other Antifa-linked cells. DHS and the State Department have specifically flagged the group (and closely associated sites such as Rose City Counter-Info) for doxxing ICE officers and issuing threats against them.
Despite these actions and the group’s record, Facebook has allowed Rose City ANTIFA to maintain an active page. Facebook’s stated policy of removing groups that pose significant public-safety risks has not resulted in the page’s removal—even after multiple reports and public criticism—while the platform continues to restrict conservatives who document ANTIFA confrontations and has not applied equivalent scrutiny to the harassment and mass-reporting campaigns directed against them.
One clear case involves videos from the Chicago ICE Center. A lone 71-year-old man holding a “I Support Law Enforcement” sign was surrounded by protesters and ANTIFA members, including Fran Ocequeda and Harrison Quinn Wahl, who verbally assaulted the elderly man. Illinois conservative activist Terry Newsome was driving past, stopped to help, and immediately became the target. Ocequeda got in his face and threatened to kill him while he was surrounded; Newsome responded aggressively after the threat. Facebook removed Newsome’s video of the confrontation and issued a violation strike. His account then faced limits: no monetization, no recommendations to other users, restricted features, and content not recommended to non-followers. The response ignored the video evidence of who initiated the confrontation with the elderly man and the threats that followed.
Fran Ocequeda and others surround Newsome at the Chicago ICE Center after he stops to help a 71-year-old veteran after being assaulted. Facebook gave Newsome a violation for posting the confrontation. The Facebook moderator calls ANTIFA “private citizen protesters.” Judge for yourself. WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE
The Gateway Pundit obtained an internal communication from Facebook’s moderation team addressing a request to review the targeted harassment of Terry Newsome’s account and reconsider the strikes he received through coordinated mass reporting by ANTIFA. In the response, the moderator said the account had not been disabled but faced limits of no monetization, no recommendations to other users, and some restricted features stemming from a series of strikes for content that broke Community Standards. The reviewer claimed to have looked at every active strike, with extra care on a specific video, and concluded that most strikes were for “repeated content attacking or insulting private individuals, including protesters.” The moderator said these were applied correctly and in line with policies, found no sign that political views played any part, and noted that a second review by the policy team confirmed the decision. Remaining strikes would stay in place until they expire.
Facebook moderator’s description does not match the facts. The claim that Newsome’s strikes were justified for attacking ordinary “private individuals, including protesters” is false.
The people Newsome interacted with—whether through posts documenting confrontations or responses to those harassing and stalking him on his own page—were ANTIFA members or far-left radicals who were the aggressors. Video shows them surrounding and harassing an elderly man, issuing threats, and then using mass community reports to trigger enforcement against the person who recorded it.
If the moderation team had actually looked at the context, the identities of those involved, or the pattern of coordinated reporting instead of accepting surface-level claims, the strikes for exposing ANTIFA activity would not have been upheld. Instead, Facebook protected the aggressors while penalizing Newsome’s visibility, growth, monetization, and account health for pushing back. The moderator’s assertion that political views played no role and that the strikes were correctly applied ignores the evidence and reflects a clear double standard.
Facebook’s moderators repeatedly described the people in Newsome’s videos and interactions as ordinary “private individuals, including protesters.” The following clips show additional confrontations with the same category of individuals at ICE-related events—none of which resulted in strikes against Newsome, but which illustrate the people Facebook has characterized that way.
August 8, 2025, outside the Lombard DHS facility during Kristi Noem’s press conference.
March 8, 2026, at the Broadview ICE facility (the same location where Emily Cahill was assaulted). Raven Geary, an ANTIFA-associated activist, spits in Newsome’s face. Broadview police charged her with assault.
On January 17, 2026, Emily Cahill—a local conservative ICE supporter and leader of Protest the Protesters, was brutally assaulted at the Chicago/Broadview ICE center while simply holding a “We Love ICE” sign. Anti-ICE organizer Chela Garcia snuck up behind her, ripped her hair, and punched her repeatedly. When Cahill tried to fight back, a pack of male Antifa members grabbed and held her so Garcia could continue her assault.
Emily Cahill’s Facebook post of the Assault by Chela Garcia and ANTIFA at the Broadview ICE Center
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The January 17, 2026 Broadview rally was organized by Indivisible collaborator Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos, founder of American Opposition and a key strategist behind anti-Trump and “No Kings” protests. Álvarez-Aranyos previously worked for Protect Democracy, a group funded by George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
Newsome reposted Cahill’s original January 17th Facebook post of the assault—Cahills identical post is still up on her page while Facebook removed Newsome’s for a violation. He appealed. Human moderators reviewed the clear video of ANTIFA and Garcia assaulting Cahill but still upheld the strike. Facebook once again protected ANTIFA attackers while punishing the conservative who documented their violence. Facebook admits coordinated mass reporting as a problem, yet it still refuses to explain why its human moderators keep showing clear bias against conservative accounts.
Emily Cahill’s post of the January 17th assault. Cahill’s post remains up while Newsome’s was removed due to mass fake reporting by ANTIFA.
Other strikes followed the same pattern. They covered replies to users who were already targeting and commenting on Newsome’s account, along with posts that exposed ANTIFA activity. Facebook claimed these posts violated its policies on bullying, harassment, hateful conduct, or violence and incitement. The appeal response failed to address the prior stalking, the coordinated mass reporting, or the fact that the people initiating contact were the aggressors.
Recently, another conservative, Tom Kaz—known on Facebook as the Crazy Conservative Roofer—was at the same Broadview ICE Center where Terry Newsome and Emily Cahill were previously assaulted. While reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, he was verbally harassed by ANTIFA members who yelled “F*** You” at him through a bullhorn. He posted the video of the confrontation on Facebook; it was removed for “hateful conduct.” Once again, the conservative who documented the confrontation was punished.
Tom Kaz (“Crazy Conservative Roofer”) Facebook post of him reciting the Pledge of Allegiance while being verbally assaulted by ANTIFA. Facebook removed the post for “hateful conduct.”
Facebook removed one of the Crazy Conservative Roofer’s posts of him saying the Pledge of Allegiance while being verbally assaulted. It also took down another video showing Christian conservatives protesting. Facebook justified the removals under its community standards, labeling the content as potentially containing “symbols, glorification or support of people and organizations we define as dangerous.”
The irony is hard to miss. A cross, a Bible, and Americans reciting the Pledge of Allegiance were treated as dangerous, while Facebook continues to allow active pages and organizing by ANTIFA. The screenshot on the far right shows Muse, Facebook’s AI, responding to the conservative’s questions about why his account was suddenly targeted after he counter-protested at the Chicago/Broadview ICE Center. The AI’s answer was not surprising: it indicated the account had become the target of mass reporting.
This enforcement contrasts with Facebook’s aggressive removal of Proud Boys content and bans on the group. While ANTIFA—described in the September 22, 2025 Executive Order as a militarist, anarchist enterprise that uses illegal means including organized riots, assaults on ICE and law enforcement, and doxing to suppress lawful political activity—maintains a presence and weaponizes reporting tools, Proud Boys material is routinely removed.
The result is a platform that allows a group designated a domestic terrorist organization by Executive Order to organize, harass, and silence conservatives through mass reporting, while penalizing the people who record the confrontations or push back. Facebook’s claim that political views played no role does not hold up against the pattern of removals, the content of the videos, the internal moderation response that treated ANTIFA aggressors as ordinary “private individuals and protesters,” or the platform’s double standard toward other groups. Those who coordinate false or bad-faith mass reports to trigger enforcement should face consequences under Facebook’s own rules against misusing the reporting system. Conservatives documenting ANTIFA activity should not be the ones restricted while the original aggressors continue operating freely on the platform.
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