«Though the use of red triangles was, as the tweet says, very common, it's not very well-known. But the use of a red triangle as an antifa symbol, which is what the Trump campaign claimed it was meant to be, is even more obscure.»
«Though the campaign said on Twitter that the upside-down red triangle is ‹widely used› by antifa, it’s not. The image most closely associated with the group is of a red and black flag. Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, told the New York Times that the triangle was not an antifa symbol, adding that its Nazi origins actually represented a ‹death threat against leftists.›»
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«According to Facebook's ad library, the campaign placed 30 red triangle ads on the Team Trump page, 30 on Trump's page, and 28 on Pence's page. Those add up to 88. It's certainly possible that the Trump campaign's decision to go with a very specific number of ads – a number that also happens to have Nazi connections – is a coincidence.»