Author Topic: Fake News: Late Night Raid On Michigan Mosque Did NOT Net 11 ISIS Terrorists and More Than 40 Vests  (Read 1097 times)

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Offline TomSea

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I saw someone actually post one of the original stories on social media. A heads up, surely this is totally false.

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Fake News: Late Night Raid On Michigan Mosque Did NOT Net 11 ISIS Terrorists and More Than 40 Vests

    by: Maarten Schenk 8 hours ago (Thu, 11 Jan 2018 09:53:56 Z)

The story that a raid on a mosque in Dearborn, Michigan netted 11 terrorists and over 40 suicide vests is completely fabricated. There is no "Agent Nesmith Variacles of the FBI" and the "Department of Refugee Affairs" mentioned in the original article does not exist. The story was copied by several "real" fake news websites but in fact originated on the satircal website Reagan Was Right under the title "Late Night Raid On Michigan Mosque Nets 11 ISIS Terrorists and More Than 40 Vests". You can read the original here (archived here in case it goes down). The original article opened:

Read more at: https://hoax-alert.leadstories.com/3468921-fake-news-late-night-raid-on-michigan-mosque-did-not-net-11-isis-terrorists-and-more-than-40-vests.html