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You’ve probably seen a Facebook group about American “trucker convoys” who want to block traffic in LA or DC.

Guess what? Some of those groups were created by fake people in Romania.


But some of them are now very real, and they’re really planning something.

There are dozens of these “Trucker convoy” accounts with tens of thousands of followers.

Some are real. Some are created in places like Vietnam, but targeted DC or LA.

The fake ones were previously anti-mandate/pro-Trump pages that renamed themselves to reference convoys. https://t.co/JiKRd5Hf8h

These foreign, stolen accounts and groups are called “Nick accounts,” according to Harvard’s Joan Donovan.

You can buy them on the dark web cheap.

They even have great customer service. Did your convoy group get banned from Facebook?

Call them. They’ll give you another. https://t.co/zo7M9yJgbk

Foreign content mills build up userbases, then narrow it down later. It's "growth hacking."

This allows them to appear high up in search, making it appear as if tens of thousands of people are really about to get in a truck and head to D.C.

The goal is to will it into reality. https://t.co/kcEdeymhqo

So some of these convoy groups are run by nick accounts from Vietnam, Bangladesh, Romania.

They then sell merch, like AI-generated tees. It’s a low overhead, potentially high-profit scheme.

That’s what Facebook thinks is happening with some convoy accounts. https://t.co/DlLo0FuKQ5

That said, these same accounts can be purchased for… any purpose. They could conceivably sold to foreign or domestic influence operations. They have been in the past. https://t.co/VO2VwCrgm8

Now, there are real protests being planned in trucker convoy groups on Facebook and Telegram.

The goal, for a lot of this week, was to block access to the Super Bowl in LA. Most groups appear to have given up that dream. They can’t organize it in time.

But they have a new date. https://t.co/fjxAfaA1sn

The people in the trucker convoy groups on Telegram are a massive amalgam of followers of major QAnon and antivaxx influencers.

There are truckers, but not a ton of them.

And they’re ready to head to DC, LA, and maybe other American cities before the 5th. https://t.co/u2DvYu1Nas

How did they coalesce around this date?

Big money in the antivaxx movement largely decided it for them.

The massive antivaxx rally that keynoted by RFK Jr. last month, Defeat The Mandates DC, changed their website today to promote a California Trucker Convoy on March 5th. https://t.co/LuEHy8JMCt

Things went from 0-to-60 in these trucker convoy Telegrams in the last 48 hours—from pipe dream to real-life planning.

I talked to Sara Aniano who spent the week in these audio chats.

Users talk logistics, like blankets and food. Then they talk Q and elites drinking baby blood. https://t.co/33d6BfMrNY

Here's what's important:

Even though it wasn’t totally organic, trucker convoys really are organizing in the United States right now.

The social media factions that floated from Q to January 6th to antivaxx marches are making the American Trucker Convoys their next priority.

After a week in Trucker Convoy Telegram, Sara told me she wasn’t worried until today.

But now she’s convinced these things are coming to the U.S., even if they aren't actually truckers.

“This feels like the culmination of everything that’s happened since Jan. 6th,” she told me.

Here's our full story on the arrival of the American Trucker Convoys — who, how, and where they're planning.

It's fake accounts in Romania AND big-money antivaxxers in California.

I think it's comprehensive. I hope you read it.
https://t.co/w2wVo4IcOK