Conservative Influencer Sparks Outrage with Unhinged Conspiracy Claim That Martin Luther King Jr Was a Character Created By the FBI [Video]

A conservative social media influencer sparked outrage last week after spreading a ridiculous conspiracy theory on TikTok, claiming that iconic civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. “was a completely made-up character created by the FBI.”

The person behind the now-viral video is a woman known as @iamvantnguyen on TikTok, who based her theory on soon-to-be-released FBI documents following President Donald Trump’s executive order to declassify all restricted files related to King’s assassination by James Earl Ray in 1968.

“I know I’m gonna get so much hate for this, but you cannot deny this is not the truth, because this is coming directly from the unclassified files that President Trump released,” she stated in the footage with pages of FBI records wallpapered behind her.

“This is directly from the FBI website that is vault.fbi.gov, this is where the unclassified document on Martin Luther King Jr, his image and his assassination is uploaded just in the first five pages,” she said confidently as if she …