1 day ago - This is mega YouTuber Nick Shirley back at *** daycare in Minnesota he alleged was *** fraudulent facility in *** now viral video. People are going to say this is *** left or right issue, but no, fraud is fraud, so I'm not out here trying to put *** twist on things. Shirley's viral video released over the weekend in which he says he's uncovering. Of millions of dollars in fraud at Minneapolis daycares run by the Somali community was retweeted by Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance.

2 days ago - A video by a right-wing content creator accusing several Somali-owned child care centers in Minnesota of fraud went viral and led to compliance checks by Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families. The agency says they were operating normally, except for one that was not yet open when investigators arrived.

5 days ago - Shirley’s video establishes, from the opening moments, a clear thesis: Somali daycare owners are committing fraud at scale, and the system enables it. Viewers are not invited to explore a question; they are walked through a conclusion.

1 week ago - Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in December sent Minnesota a letter threatening to disqualify it from SNAP and cut funding unless it recertified the eligibility for over 100,000 households and interviewed them in-person within 30 days, according to a lawsuit filed by Minnesota's attorney general, who Leavitt criticized. The announcement came a day after U.S. Homeland Security officials conducted a fraud investigation in Minneapolis, questioning workers at unidentified businesses. Trump has criticized Walz's administration over the cases, capitalizing on them to target the Somali diaspora in the state, which has the largest Somali population in the U.S.

1 day ago - But President Donald Trump has used those charges as justification for his disparaging remarks attacking Somali people as a community. And right-wing influencers have run far beyond prosecutors, flooding social media with amateur sleuthing of their own that often has thin evidence and is missing context. The videos gained traction in right-wing social media circles after Nick Shirley, a conservative content creator, posted a lengthy video on Dec. 26 purporting to show child care facilities in Minnesota that weren’t operational but were receiving state and federal funds.

1 week ago - Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill called out a right-wing influencer who posted a video claiming he found that day care centers operated by Somali residents in Minneapolis had committed up to $100 million in fraud.

1 day ago - 'We are open every day, and we have our records to show that this place is open.' Hasan, who is Somali, said that there are 56 children enrolled at the center, and since Shirley's video was posted, his center has received harassing phone calls.

1 week ago - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Minnesota has also disclosed demographic data showing that approximately 89% of those charged in the Feeding Our Future case are Somali Americans, according to reporting from Associated Press.

1 week ago - Immigrant-rights advocates have accused the administration of using the fraud investigations as an excuse to target Somali immigrants more broadly. Sign up here. The FBI declined to provide further details about Patel's comment. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Patel on Sunday referenced "recent social media reports in Minnesota," without being more specific. But his X post came two days after an online video documented allegedly inactive daycare facilities that had received public funds as part of a wider network of allegedly fraudulent activities.

1 week ago - Feds have intensified its operations in Minnesota following new allegations of fraud, targeting day care centers reportedly run by the Somali community.

4 days ago - Quality Learning Center, a focus of a video looking at Somali businesses in Minneapolis, has a history of code violations, but none that suggested fraud.

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1 week ago - The videos are garbage propaganda intended to stoke violence against the Somali community. ... Kids don't generally need daycare during the Christmas break, Einstein.

1 week ago - Federal officials in recent weeks have portrayed Minnesota's Somali community as a hotspot for fraud involving millions of federal dollars intended for social services.