Univision was among the many first broadcast networks to report on the newest huge welfare fraud scandal engulfing Minnesota. Sadly, the morning temporary supplied little in the way in which of particulars and massively smeared FBI Director Kash Patel.
Watch the temporary in its entirety, as aired on Univision’s Despierta América on Monday, December twenty ninth, 2025:
ANTI-NEWS: @UniNoticias smears @FBIDirectorKash, accusing him of focusing on Somalis whereas avoiding any point out of the specifics of the newest huge MN fraud scandal pic.twitter.com/3zKtKlPX7Z
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) December 29, 2025
MARIA ANTONIETA COLLINS: In different information, the FBI is at the moment investigating a fraud scheme in Minnesota involving thousands and thousands of {dollars} meant for social providers. This was confirmed by the company’s director, Kash Patel, who additionally clarified that they’ve targeted totally on Somali immigrants within the state. Activists accuse the administration of utilizing the fraud investigations as a pretext to strain immigrants of that nationality.
That’s it. That was the temporary. Whereas better, in substance, than something aired on the opposite broadcast networks, the temporary lacked any of the small print reported by unbiased journalist Nick Shirley. There was no telling viewers in regards to the billions of {dollars} diverted to day care facilities with all method of violations and with doubtful enrollments.
As a substitute, the report claimed that Patel “clarified (the FBI) targeted on Somali immigrants within the state.” The factor is, Patel by no means stated that. Right here’s his assertion subsequent to the Shirley report:
CASE UPDATE: MINNESOTA FRAUD SCHEME
The FBI is conscious of current social media stories in Minnesota. Nevertheless, even earlier than the general public dialog escalated on-line, the FBI had surged personnel and investigative assets to Minnesota to dismantle large-scale fraud schemes…
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) December 28, 2025
There’s nothing in that assertion that particularly targets the Somali group for regulation enforcement motion. There isn’t something in any of Patel’s statements on Minnesota fraud that means particular Somali focusing on. So how does such a line clear what needs to be layers of modifying and fact-checking and in the end make it to the teleprompter? In all chance, newsroom writers merely gleaned off of a number of different headlines that breathlessly (and likewise falsely) claimed Patel was focusing on the Somalis. In different phrases, Univision’s viewers had been fed pure slop.
This story offered itself as a take a look at that Univision failed. Right here is an immigrant crime story that doesn’t contain or threaten the community’s viewer base, and may subsequently be extra simply reported pretty and precisely. However Univision fell again on its historic immigration biases, shifting to an advocacy body somewhat than reporting on the large scandal unfolding in Minnesota. What occurs if related fraud is uncovered in, say, New York or California? What does Univision do then?
The story confirms but once more what research have discovered, which is that voters who rely upon Spanish-language TV for his or her information are among the many most disinformed. And we’re reminded of the large reforms that have to happen earlier than the media can regain the general public’s trust- in any language.
