The idea of involvement by the self-proclaimed Islamic State originated on Monday with Fox and Friends co-host Pete Hegseth, who appeared to conflate two unrelated stories: news of the caravan and unverified claims by Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales last week that Guatemala had arrested 100 people linked to ISIS. Another widely shared article, from the conservative activist group Judicial Watch, claimed there were ISIS terrorists in the caravan by Wednesday morning, it had received more than 32,000 Twitter shares and 77,000 likes and shares on Facebook. One of the highest-performing posts on the subject was a Daily Caller article echoing Trump’s claims. According to the social analytics site CrowdTangle, conservative media outlets dominated the highest-performing posts about the subject on Tuesday. Since Trump’s tweet, Facebook’s feeds have been dominated by posts from conservative news sources parroting the president’s unverified allegation. I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy.
Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. On Monday, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to claim, without evidence, that a caravan of approximately 7,000 immigrants heading from Guatemala to the Mexican border contained “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners.” It didn’t take long for this claim, and even more outlandish ones, to spread like a virus across social media.
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