Given how easy it is to get on social media, make an anonymous account or group that looks real and spread misinformation, it's almost certain that there are some people — possibly a lot of them — trying something like this somewhere online.

Social media platforms also have taken down fake accounts linked to both Iran and China, and perhaps they are involved, too.

It, too, prompted protests across America.

Back then, Russians used a fake Black Lives Matter page to stoke anger and cause confusion among real American protesters in the Twin Cities.

The page had hundreds of thousands of followers, though with any page like this it's never entirely clear how many followers are real and American and how many are fake -- or at least paid for in order to create the appearance of legitimacy.

But real protests were already happening.

So yes, there might be some fake accounts — but the protests are real, and so are the protesters' concerns.