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•2mo 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•2mo 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.
soared•2mo ago
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•2mo ago
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•2mo ago
palmotea•2mo ago
It's totally plausible some of that money wound up with a Somali terrorist organization.
lazyasciiart•2mo ago
cholantesh•2mo ago
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.