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Actual original article: https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-

by soared 11mo ago

Actual original article: https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud... It’s aggressively partisan, conflates storylines, uses flawed logic, and a variety of other journalistic malfeasance. There does appear to be welfare fraud, but this site does not appear to be a good place to learn about it.

scarmig 11mo ago
Partisan does not mean wrong. The original article is clearly very loaded, but it's also the type of story that the mainstream media hates picking up: massive welfare fraud being used to fund terrorist groups in Somalia gores at least half a dozen sacred cows. This should receive a lot more attention, and, if true, heads should roll (and not low level managers and workers).
- lazyasciiart 11mo ago
  In this case, city-journal has previously run articles that make clearly false claims on topics I am familiar with, such as the cost of homelessness on the city of Seattle. I don’t trust them at all.
  - palmotea 11mo ago
    Minnesota has a welfare fraud problem, and the highest profile scandal (to the tune of a quarter billion dollars) was mostly committed by Somalis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_Our_Future#Defendants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_Our_Future#Defendants. It's been widely reported. It's totally plausible some of that money wound up with a Somali terrorist organization.
    - lazyasciiart 11mo ago
      Then someone else can report on it. I don’t bother reading News of The World in case they say something true either.
- cholantesh 11mo ago
  >Partisan does not mean wrong. Sure, but all of this: >conflates storylines, uses flawed logic, and a variety of other journalistic malfeasance ...combined with the Manhattan Institute's ideological priors don't really help.

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Actual original article: https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-

by soared 11mo ago

scarmig 11mo ago
Partisan does not mean wrong. The original article is clearly very loaded, but it's also the type of story that the mainstream media hates picking up: massive welfare fraud being used to fund terrorist groups in Somalia gores at least half a dozen sacred cows. This should receive a lot more attention, and, if true, heads should roll (and not low level managers and workers).
- lazyasciiart 11mo ago
  In this case, city-journal has previously run articles that make clearly false claims on topics I am familiar with, such as the cost of homelessness on the city of Seattle. I don’t trust them at all.
  - palmotea 11mo ago
    Minnesota has a welfare fraud problem, and the highest profile scandal (to the tune of a quarter billion dollars) was mostly committed by Somalis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_Our_Future#Defendants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_Our_Future#Defendants. It's been widely reported. It's totally plausible some of that money wound up with a Somali terrorist organization.
    - lazyasciiart 11mo ago
      Then someone else can report on it. I don’t bother reading News of The World in case they say something true either.
- cholantesh 11mo ago
  >Partisan does not mean wrong. Sure, but all of this: >conflates storylines, uses flawed logic, and a variety of other journalistic malfeasance ...combined with the Manhattan Institute's ideological priors don't really help.