Fact Check: Did ABC News Deceive Readers by Referring to MS-13 as a 'Clique'?
It was a bit of social media copy that first went viral when conservatives flagged it as an example of media malfeasance. It then went viral again when the left used to tar and feather conservatives for being insufficiently wise as to the terminology used by law enforcement officialdom to describe gang members.
So, here’s a fact-check to put it to rest once and for all: Can MS-13 really be referred to as a “clique?”
That was the question people were asking themselves when ABC News found itself in the center of a maelstrom regarding its social media copy on a report regarding the sentencing of a leader of a cell in the transnational criminal cartel for eight murders, including high school students.
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