This claim was also patently false, as Amnesty International had never spoken to the man. @geoffreyyork.bsky.social and I debunked it in a @theglobeandmail.com story at the time, but not before it spread on Twitter, and the innocent man was widely harassed.

Today, many still believe the theory.

Then #AmnestyusedTPLFsources emerged. Video of a Boston man, a Tigrayan activist re-enacting Axum massacre testimony, was coopted by government media, who claimed the man masqueraded as an Axum based priest and duped Amnesty Intl. Below: Ethiopia's Ambassador to the US tweeting the disinformation.