News Brief: How Corporate Media Laid the Groundwork for a Rightwing Incitement Campaign in Minnesota

In this News Brief, we detail how CBS, Fox, WSJ, and NYT promoted an essentialized, overblown narrative on the "Somali Minnesota fraud" story, teeing up a full blown rightwing incitement campaign against Minneapolis's immigrant communities.

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News Brief: How Corporate Media Laid the Groundwork for a Rightwing Incitement Campaign in Minnesota is an episode from Citations Needed by Citations Needed.

This episode is 27:42 long.

This episode was published on Jan 7, 2026.

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