Extremist 'Boogaloo Bois' back on Facebook since Mar-a-Lago raid, as anger toward feds mounts

Experts say the movement thrives on events that spur civil disobedience and animosity towards the government.A new report by the Tech Transparency Project ties the resurgence to backlash over the search of Trump’s home.Facebook says it continues to make efforts to keep extremists from using the platform.Accounts, pages and groups connected to the violent extremist movement the “Boogaloo Bois” are resurfacing on Facebook, despite the platform vowing to remove references to the movement more than two years ago. A new report by the Tech Transparency Project, provided exclusively to USA TODAY, details several Boogaloo-affiliated groups and pages, including one group with more than 4,000 members, popping up on Facebook in recent weeks.The meme-focused Boogaloo movement, which has at its core a deep distrust and hatred of the federal government, has been tied to dozens of arrests and at least two fatal attacks on police, but the ideology seemed to fade in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection last year.Its resurgence now appears to be connected to the search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home Mar-a-Lago and the ensuing vitriol toward the federal government, said Katie Paul, director of the Tech Transparency Project, a nonprofit watchdog group that monitors large tech companies.More: Threats toward FBI, law enforcement were already…
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