Buffett's Brick Company Linked to Antifa in Online Conspiracies

A unit of Berkshire Hathaway gets pulled into the online rumor mill

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Britt Stokes saw the first baffling tweet on Monday, June 1st. It showed two images of bricks stacked with a delivery tag from Acme Brick Co., where Stokes is director of marketing. The Twitter post suggested the company left the bricks intentionally to be used in protests in Frisco, a Dallas suburb.

Stokes tracked the order and discovered it was an earlier shipment, sent to a homeowner’s association to repair a fence. Frisco's police department put out a statement confirming the same details.