They organize on radical message boards and encrypted texting apps, but are backed by funds created by radical leftist billionaires.

"My team’s best judgement is that it’s the Neville Singham network that is most active [in Minnesota], partly because that’s the most crazy network. But they aren’t alone,” Scott Walter, president of Capital Research and an expert on dark money outfits, told The Post.

Walter was referring to the People’s Forum and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, both funded by China-based former software exec Singham.

Both groups promoted the "ICE Out” protests — which were organized by another group, called 50501 — through social media, and Walter said their members were in attendance, but he noted they have recently been getting their members to blend in more with the crowds.

Extreme Communists marching with mainstream unions like the American Federation of Teachers is a new and troubling development, influence expert Scott Walter told The Post.

"What’s new is, we are seeing truly extreme Communist splinter groups showing up alongside an American Federation for Teachers union or the Ford Foundation.

"That’s a disturbing trend for us who follow these things. Normally, they wouldn’t have been cheek by jowl publicly with those people,” Walter said.

"That kind of self-policing on the left seems to be disappearing.”

Singham, who did not respond to a request for comment, has become a major funder of left-wing activist networks, including protests in Minnesota and other cities, all coordinated from his base in Shanghai.

"Have you noticed there’s no pro-Palestinian and anti-ICE protests going on at the same time? If it was organic, you would see multiple protests going on simultaneously, but you don’t see that,” Ian Oxnevad, a senior foreign affairs fellow at the National Association of Scholars, told The Post.

"There’s no mass protests like this against what is going on in Iran, for example, or any number of genocides that have happened. It’s always very specific causes that are anti-Western, essentially,” he added, referring to anti-regime unrest in Iran that has allegedly seen 36,000 protesters killed in recent weeks.

Friday’s Minneapolis protest occurred under the umbrella of the 50501 network, which operates largely in the shadows.

50501 lists its nonprofit "partners” on its website, including the Ford Foundation-funded Voices of Florida, a "black and queer-led” pro-abortion nonprofit, and former Bernie Sanders PAC Political Revolution.

The New York-based Ford Foundation philanthropic endowment, which gave Voices of Florida $100,000, is the 90-year-old philanthropic network founded by the carmaker Henry Ford that now says its mission is reducing inequality and promoting social justice.

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