Right-wing media have repeatedly tried to smear Heyer, and in doing so to portray antifa as a massive threat to the country while downplaying the threat of white supremacy.

In fact, Fox News tried a similar tactic a year ago on the first anniversary of the Charlottesville protests. At the time, Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Center on Extremism, told Media Matters that “Antifa is a subject that’s worthy of exploration. It’s not a subject that’s worthy of exaggeration or hyper-sensationalism … There have been a number of serious incidents where they really assaulted people over the years. … But white supremacists have committed hundreds of murders over the last 10 years -- aggravated assaults, kidnappings, and terrorist attacks. There’s no comparison.”

This comes as Fox's link to white supremacist violence is under the microscope. The manifesto left by the El Paso shooter closely mirrored white supremacist rhetoric often heard on Fox News. And that was not the first time that a mass shooter echoed conspiracy theories from Fox News and right-wing media, either.

Meanwhile, while Fox focuses on antifa, multiple far-right extremists have been arrested recently for threatening violence.