Bricks for Throwing

In a June 7 X post, conservative account @defense_civil25 — which uses the display name “US Homeland Security News” but is unaffiliated with the department — shared an image of bricks in shrink-wrap and said: “Alert: Soros funded organizations have ordered hundreds of pallets of bricks to be placed near ICE facilities to be used by Democrat militants against ICE agents and staff!! It’s Civil War!!” The post received 820,000 views and 15,000 likes in three days

The images are mislabeled. The act-checking site Lead Stories (Trust Score: 100/100) geolocated the image of the zip-tied brick pallets to the town of West New York, New Jersey. The image of the bricks in shrink-wrap was actually taken from a listing on the website of a Malaysian construction-material supplier, according to reporting by BBC Verify journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh, which NewsGuard confirmed.