Without providing context, an official FBI Twitter account shared a link to a copy on the bureau’s website of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an infamous and classic anti-Semitic text.
The fabrication, which was shown to be plagiarized from several earlier sources, was first published in Russia in 1903, translated into multiple languages and disseminated internationally in the early part of the 20th century.
The tweet was from the FBI Records Vault, which posts archived bureau records.
The Twitter post about the text, whose author is unknown and which scapegoats Jews such as baselessly claiming there’s a Jewish plan for world domination, ignited a backlash.