1. Big news out of Canada: Abu Huzayfah has been arresten on a terrorist "hoax" charge. The narrative tension of our podcast "Caliphate" is the question of whether his account is true. In Chapter 6 we explain the conflicting strands of his story, and what we can and can't confirm [_link]

— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) September 25, 2020

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Fake news hoax exposed: NY Times podcast star lied about joining ISIS

The real Abu Huzayfah al-Kanadi has been identified as a 25-year-old man living in Toronto named Shehroze Chaudhry. He was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on September 25, and faces up to five years in prison under Canada's terrorism hoax laws.

Callimachi has earned fame by marketing herself as a journalistic expert on ISIS and violent Islamist extremism.