For nearly two years, someone plastered San Jose State University bathrooms with swastikas, bomb threats, and messages like "THIS IS A WHITE NATION" and "MAGA 2028." Campus buildings emptied out on threatened dates. Professors cancelled classes. Students were terrified.
The FBI found their man. He's a 30-year-old Chinese graduate student who describes himself as "100% woke" on TikTok and a "social justice activist" on Facebook. As it turns out hate from white students was so thin that a leftist, woke student had to invent it to make leftist at the university believe the threat from MAGA was real.
Ziheng "Tony" Fang, a master's student in data science at SJSU, was arrested on a federal charge of false information and hoaxes after the Department of Justice announced the case on July 13. According to the criminal complaint filed July 9, Fang is connected to more than 20 hateful or threatening messages discovered in men's and gender-neutral restrooms across campus dating back to October 2024, with the most recent appearing on May 14, 2026.
The November 5, 2025 message — the one that led to the federal charge — was taped to a bathroom wall in a plastic cover sheet. It read: "!WARNING! MASS BOMB NEXT WEEK," accompanied by four swastikas and the phrases "THIS IS A WHITE NATION," "KILL ALL MUSLIMS + CHINKS," "MAGA 2028," and "KILL ZOHRAN" — a reference to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. A second message found in another bathroom the same day read: "Kill all Jews, Muslims, Chinks and Mexicans."
An earlier message from October 2024 included "KILL MUSLIMS JEWS LIBS," "TRUMP 2024," a bomb threat, and a swastika. The pattern was consistent — pro-Trump framing, white-supremacist language, violent threats — all apparently designed to look like the work of a MAGA extremist.
Fang's fingerprint was found on the paper bearing the November 2025 message. Key card access records showed he had entered the buildings where graffiti appeared in 16 of the 18 incidents involving controlled entry. Surveillance footage captured him entering and exiting restroom areas before several of the messages were discovered.
The FBI agent investigating the case noted that Fang's social media told a very different story from the bathroom walls. On TikTok, he called himself "100% woke." On Snapchat, "activist." On Facebook, "social justice activist." His Threads profile featured a rainbow flag. His posts criticized immigration enforcement and the MAGA movement while expressing support for immigrants and pro-Palestinian causes.
So here's the picture: a progressive activist who opposed everything MAGA spent two years writing fake MAGA threats on bathroom walls, complete with swastikas and bomb warnings, terrorizing his own campus community in the process.
U.S. Attorney Craig H. Missakian of the Northern District of California, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division, and FBI San Francisco Special Agent in Charge Scott Schelble announced the case. Fang made his initial appearance in federal court in San Jose on July 10 and faces up to five years in federal prison.
The campus response to his handiwork was real enough. Buildings turned into a "ghost town" on the dates referenced in the bomb threats. The president's office issued alerts. Students changed their routines around the fear that a violent white supremacist was stalking the restrooms.
That violent white supremacist turned out to be a data science student who put a rainbow flag on his social media.
Blaze Media reported on the case under the headline referencing Fang's social media identity and the content of his messages, drawing the contrast between the perpetrator's public progressive persona and the white-nationalist, pro-Trump character he fabricated on bathroom walls.
Hate hoaxes aren't new. We've watched this pattern play out at universities for years — threatening messages appear, vigils get organized, task forces get formed, and then the culprit turns out to be someone from the very community claiming victimhood. What makes this one stand out is the sheer volume. This wasn't one impulsive act. It was 20-plus messages over nearly two years, a sustained campaign of fabricated threats designed to make an entire campus believe it was under siege by Trump supporters.
Fang faces five years in federal prison, but he'll only be charged for the November 2025 message despite being linked to the broader pattern. The investigation by the FBI and SJSU Police Department built the case methodically — fingerprints, key cards, cameras — which is probably why it took this long.
Every one of those 20-plus messages generated real fear. Real cancelled classes. Real students looking over their shoulders. And every bit of it was manufactured by someone whose own social media history reads like an audition tape for a progressive nonprofit.
The demand for white supremacist hate crimes on college campuses continues to exceed the supply.